Tuncurry-North Wall Surf Forecast and Surf Report

G’day, Rusty here. Let’s be straight with you – the next couple of weeks are a bit of a write-off for any decent waves around Tuncurry-North Wall. We’re looking at a long, flat spell before things finally start to wake up. Don’t get too excited, but there are a couple of mornings that look like they’ll be worth a look.

The first real surfable window shows up on the morning of Tuesday the 15th. The swell is tiny, only 4ft, coming from the NNE with a weak 6-second period. The energy reading is 199, which is moderate, but the real story is the wind: a light cross-offshore breeze from the SSE will have things clean. It’s nothing special – surfable but very ordinary. The afternoon dies off quickly with a cross-shore wind and the swell dropping away.

We then hit a flat spell that lasts a couple of days. Wednesday the 16th and Thursday the 17th are essentially dead – swells down to 0.3ft to 1ft, even with offshore winds. You’re not surfing that.

Now, the first real standout comes Friday morning, the 18th. The swell pushes up to 4ft from the SE with an 8-second period, and the energy jumps to 206. That’s moderate wave energy, and with a light cross-offshore wind from the south, it should be clean. This is the first morning that genuinely looks fun. It’s still small, but the quality is there.

The next morning, Saturday the 19th, is the pick of the entire run. The swell holds at 3ft from the ESE with a 10-second period, and the energy is solid at 217. But the headline is the wind – glassy, from the NNE. That’s as good as it gets for clean conditions. This is the one to circle. It’ll be small, but it’ll be clean and lined up. The morning is the time, as the afternoon turns onshore and chops it out.

After that, we go back into the doldrums. Sunday the 20th through to Tuesday the 22nd, the swell is weak and the winds are onshore or cross-shore. There’s nothing surfable there.

We see a little spike on Wednesday the 23rd with 3ft to 5ft swells, but it’s all NE wind swell with a short 5-6 second period, and the wind is blowing 19 mph onshore. That’s messy, junky surf. Not worth the paddle.

Then the run finishes with a bigger pulse of 5ft from the SE on the morning of Sunday the 27th. The energy is strong, reading 404, which is the biggest we see in the whole forecast. But the wind is back onshore from the NE at 12 mph, so it’ll be lumpy and poor quality. For a beginner, that 5ft is on the edge, and with the onshore wind, it’s not going to be pretty.

So, in short: the long-range stuff is a promise, not a certainty, but the standout is definitely the glassy Saturday morning on the 19th. Friday the 18th is your backup. Everything else, I’d give a miss.

Rusty out.

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