Tower Road Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, grab a seat. Rusty here. Let’s talk about what’s happening at Tower Road for the next couple of weeks.

Honestly, I wish I had better news, but this stretch of the forecast is a rough one. We are looking at a long, dry gap with no surf worth paddling out for. Looking at the first real chance of anything, we’re stuck waiting until the morning of Sunday, August 30th, and even then, it’s barely a whisper.

The water is sitting at a warm 78°F right now, which is a touch warmer than normal for this time of year.

For the first 12 days, from Tuesday afternoon, August 18th, all the way through the Saturday of August 29th, there is nothing. Just a whole lot of nothing. The swell is tiny, and the wind is a mess. You’ll see a mix of onshore, cross-onshore, and cross-offshore breezes, but the wave height never gets above 2ft, and the period is often short, meaning no push. The combined energy is weak, sitting in the low double digits or barely scraping into triple digits—just not enough to make a wave. It’s a long stretch of poor surf conditions.

Then, on Sunday morning, August 30th, we get a tiny flicker of life. We’ve got a 2ft swell coming from the ESE at a 9-second period, with a light cross-offshore wind from the NW. The combined energy is 71 (weak), and the report says “surfable waves but very ordinary conditions.” That’s about as optimistic as we can get, which isn’t saying much. It’s clean, but it’s small and weak. For a beginner, this might be a session to get wet, but nobody is going to be hooting.

After that, it’s back to the grind. The rest of the run into the start of September stays small, with the swell rarely hitting 3ft and the wind constantly switching from onshore to cross-onshore, keeping the surface choppy. The energy stays in the weak to moderate range, with the highest we see being 102 on the afternoon of Thursday, August 27th, but that’s coupled with a 3ft, 6-second windswell and a cross-onshore breeze—not a recipe for quality.

The bottom line: there is no standout here. The only real mention is that Sunday morning, August 30th, is the closest thing to a window, but it’s not a standout. The best thing to do is keep an eye on the charts, because this is a blank run, and it *tends not to stay poor for long* around here. But for now, I’d leave the board in the car.

Rusty.

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