Tullan Strand Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, let’s get down to it for Tullan Strand.

I ain't gonna lie to you – the next week and a half is a testing time. We’ve got a long, dry spell of tiny, shapeless swell and onshore junk before the good stuff finally shows up. The one you want to lock in is way out there on Friday the 14th of August morning. That’s the big one.

For the first several days, it’s flat to tiny. Sunday the 2nd has a knee-high 0.6m swell from the WNW, but it’s weak, with combined energy barely 46, and the water is about 62°F, which feels a touch warmer than normal for this time of year at Tullan. It just never gets going. Monday and Tuesday are even smaller, dropping to nothing. Then Wednesday the 5th sees a jump in size – up to 5ft and then 8ft in the afternoon – but the wind swings onshore from the NW, gusting to 21 mph, and the period is a short, weak 6 to 7 seconds. The energy spikes hard (502 by the afternoon), but it’s just a messy, blown-out wall of whitewater. Too rough for any fun.

We limp through the rest of that week and into the next with tiny stuff, mostly cross-onshore and choppy. A few mornings, like Friday the 7th, show a bit of waist-high potential (3ft) with light cross-offshore winds, but the energy is still low and the surf is just ordinary. It’s frustrating.

Now, here’s the payoff. After a long wait, Friday morning the 14th of August looks special. We’ve got a solid 7ft groundswell rolling in from the west, with a long period of 10 seconds. The winds are forecast to be glassy calm, absolutely dead. The combined energy is a powerful 799 – that is serious juice. This is a proper swell, but at 7ft it’s getting into the territory where beginners might want to sit it out; it’s gonna have some real push. For the experienced crew, Tullan will light up in those clean, glassy conditions. The direction is slightly west of the optimum (which is W), but with that period and no wind, it’ll have good shape and power. Expect clean, lined-up sets.

Saturday morning the 15th of August is a very close second. Another 7ft swell from the WNW with a period of 9 seconds, light offshore winds from the east at 3 mph. The energy is still huge at 688. It’s a classic, clean morning for a surf, just slightly less perfect than the Friday due to a touch more wind and a shorter period.

So the call is clear. Suffer through the flat spells, maybe have a paddle on Friday the 7th or Thursday the 13th (which shows a clean 3ft morning with light offshore wind), but your target is Friday the 14th of August. That’s the day Tullan will show its teeth in the cleanest conditions we’ve seen all forecast period.

Rusty

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