Torrance Beach/Burn Out Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, Rusty here. Let’s take a look at what’s cookin’ for Torrance Beach/Burn Out over the next couple of weeks.

Right off the bat, I gotta be straight with you: this stretch of coast is looking pretty quiet. For the first few days, we’ve got tiny little shoves of swell, mostly around 1ft to 2ft, and a lot of the time the wind is just messing it up. Tuesday the 25th through Thursday the 27th? Honestly, you’re better off staying home. The water temp is a notable 72°, which is a solid 6° warmer than usual for this time of year – that’s definitely unusual, but it won’t do much to help the surf.

The one real standout I can see is Friday morning, the 28th of August. The wind is glassy, dead calm, and that’s a big deal. The swell is coming from the SSW at 2ft, with a period of 17 seconds, so we’re talking proper long-period groundswell energy. The combined energy is moderate (206). That’s the kind of morning where you paddle out and the ocean feels like it’s holding its breath. The early window on Friday is your best bet, but don’t hang around for the afternoon – the wind swings onshore and kills it.

The weekend, Saturday the 29th and Sunday the 30th, has a little more size – 3ft to 3ft from the SSW – but the wind is mostly cross-on or onshore, and the surf quality is just marginal. The energy picks up a bit (438 on Saturday morning), but it’s not clean enough to get excited about. This spot is a beach break, exposed to the swell, and with that onshore flow, it’s going to be a bit of a crumbly mess.

Looking further out, the pattern doesn’t change much. We’ve got a long stretch from the 31st of August right through to the 9th of September of mostly poor surf conditions. The swell hangs around 1ft to 3ft, but the wind is almost always onshore or cross-on. There are a few mornings – like the 31st of August and the 3rd of September – where the wind is light and cross-off or cross, so you might get a couple of cleanish waves, but they’ll be small and weak. The energy from the 4th of September onwards is moderate (392 to 416) but the wind just won’t cooperate.

Honestly, if you’re a beginner, the small stuff with light winds on the 28th morning might be okay, but anything over 3ft here with onshore wind is just a messy paddle. For the experts, there’s nothing here that’ll get your heart rate up. The long period swell (17-19 seconds, which is very long) is better suited to a point or reef, but at a beach break like this, it’ll just straighten out and close out on you.

Overall, it’s a pretty quiet outlook. The only real window is Friday morning the 28th. After that, it’s a long wait through the first week of September with nothing proper on offer. It doesn’t tend to stay poor here forever, but for now, the forecast is what it is.

Rusty.

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