Tower Road Surf Forecast and Surf Report

G'day, I'm Rusty. Well, I've had a good look at the charts for the next couple of weeks, and I gotta be straight with you – it's a bit of a flat spell. The whole 16-day window is a real struggle, with every single day stamped as "poor surf conditions." The wave energy is weak, and the swell is tiny. There's nothing that's going to get the heart pumping. It's a classic case of the ocean taking a breather around here. Let's run through it, though, because you never know when a sneaky little runner might pop up, but don't hold your breath.

Looking at the first few days, starting Sunday the 26th of July, we've got a tiny 2ft swell from the southeast, with a short period of 8 seconds. The combined energy is a measly 49, so it's not even a whisper. The wind is a light cross-onshore, so it's not clean. Monday the 27th is even smaller at 1ft, and while Tuesday the 28th morning goes glassy, the swell is still only 1ft with a combined energy of just 26. It's a lake, not a surf break.

The swell does try to pick up a little heading into Thursday the 30th of July, with a 3ft easterly swell and a combined energy of 135, which is moderate. But the wind swings around to a fresh cross-onshore at 19 mph, making it lumpy and messy. Not worth the paddle out.

This pattern of tiny, weak swell with poor conditions just repeats. We get a few days at the start of August with a bit of height, like Sunday the 2nd of August with 3ft, but the period is short (5 seconds) and the combined energy is only 45, with a cross-shore wind. There's a clean spell on Monday the 3rd of August with a 3ft SSE swell and a combined energy of 155, but it's still poor surf conditions. Later in the week, we get some offshore winds on Tuesday the 4th of August, but the swell is only 2ft, and the combined energy is 32. It's just not enough.

The end of the run is even worse. From the 6th of August onward, the swell drops to barely nothing, with combined energy values as low as 1. We're talking about a 0.3ft swell on the 7th of August. There's a glassy morning on the 7th, but you'd be surfing ripples. The water temperature is around 75°, which is about normal for the time of year with a slight positive anomaly of 0.5°.

So, the honest truth is there are no standouts, no good options. The only break in the data is Tower Road, a sandbar that's fairly consistent but exposed. The swell is tiny and the wind is rarely right. This kind of blank run is a bit of a bummer, but it happens. Forecasts can change, but for now, it's a waiting game.

Rusty.

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