Tuncurry-North Wall Surf Forecast and Surf Report

G'ay, I'm Rusty. Let's have a look at what's coming up for Tuncurry-North Wall.

Honestly, the outlook over the next sixteen days is a bit of a sad one. There's a real lack of decent swell, and what does show up is often junked up by the wind. We're looking at a long stretch of small, mostly poor conditions, especially from the end of this week onwards. The best chance to get wet will be very early on.

Looking at the water temp first, for Tuncurry-North Wall, it's sitting at 65°F, which is pretty much spot-on average for this time of year, so nothing unusual there.

The pick of the week is Wednesday morning, 26th August. We've got a 5ft swell from the NE, but the real key is a light WSW wind, blowing cross-offshore. This combo should produce clean waves, and the combined energy of all swells is moderate at 210. The swell period is 8 seconds, so it's a short period wind swell, but with that clean wind it'll be rideable. The break here is a beach/breakwater setup and fairly consistent, so you'll find some, but with crowds rated as "often", you won't be on your own.

Tuesday morning the 25th has a 5ft NE swell, but it's coming with a cross-on NNE wind at 9 mph, making it choppy. Combined energy is moderate at 177, but conditions will be poor. The afternoon gets a little bigger at 7ft, but again the quality is poor. Thursday morning drops right down to 3ft from the ENE, with a clean offshore SSW breeze, so it's surfable but very ordinary.

After that, from Friday the 28th right through the start of September, the swell is tiny. Most days we're looking at 2ft or less, mainly from the ENE, with combined energy readings often below 100 – weak wave energy. The winds are occasionally glassy or offshore, like Friday morning the 28th with 2ft and a glassy calm, but the waves are just too small to get excited about. This flat spell is a long one, and you'd be waiting for a genuine pulse.

Looking further out into the first week of September, there's nothing to write home about. A tiny uptick to 4ft on Tuesday the 1st of September afternoon, but with short 5-second period and onshore wind, it's a dud. Overall, the setup here is a beach break, and with this run of small, poor surf, this stretch looks more interesting for kite surfing than paddle surfing if the wind suits.

So, bottom line: for a surf, hit Wednesday morning the 26th August. After that, it's a waiting game.

Rusty.

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