Turimetta Beach Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here, let's have a look at what's coming up for our local stretch.

The outlook starts with a pretty quiet patch, but it builds to a couple of sessions that are definitely worth circling on the calendar. We’ve got a good run of clean, offshore mornings early on, but the real standout action is a bit further out.

Kicking off from Monday afternoon, it’s pretty poor with a cross-onshore breeze and only 3-foot of weak south swell. The energy is low (225). Not one to get excited about.

Tuesday, the 1st of September, sees a big improvement. The morning is clean with a light north wind and a 3-foot south swell, period stretching to 11 seconds. The combined energy is still modest (229), but the conditions are good. The standout here is Tuesday afternoon with a light offshore northwesterly, making for clean, lined-up waves on the same 3-foot south swell. Energy picks up a touch (247). This is a solid option for a session.

Wednesday and Thursday mornings (2nd and 3rd) offer clean, offshore conditions, but the swell is smaller, dropping to 2 feet and then 2 feet, with energy fading (159 down to 112). Surfable but nothing special.

We hit a real flat spot from Thursday afternoon, through the 4th, 5th, and 6th of September. The surf is small, choppy, or just poor. There’s a window of opportunity on Sunday morning, the 6th, when it goes glassy and the swell nudges up to 5 feet from the south with a 10-second period and a big jump in energy (493). That’s a good one, but it’s a short-lived window before the onshore kicks in.

The second week gets interesting. Monday the 7th is a bit messy, but Tuesday the 8th has a clean 5-foot northeast swell – the period is short though, at 8 seconds, so the energy is there (422) but the waves might be a bit jumbled.

Now, the big one. On Wednesday the 9th of September, we’ve got a massive 16-foot south swell forecast. The energy readings are off the charts (6205 and 6341). The morning is glassy and offshore. But for a beach and reef setup like Turimetta Beach, that’s too much size. This is expert-only territory, if it’s even rideable at all. It’s a spectacle, not a session for most.

The true standout, the one you want to plan for, is Thursday the 10th of September. The morning is clean, with a cross-offlight wind, and a still-very-solid 13-foot swell from the southeast. The energy is massive (3585). This is described as excellent for experienced surfers. The water temp is about 64°F, which is pretty normal for this time of year.

Following that, Friday the 11th of September morning looks magic: glassy conditions, a 6-foot east swell, and good energy (837). That’s a much more manageable size and should be clean and fun.

After that, the swell drops and the onshore winds make a mess of things for the rest of the forecast period. The 12th through the 15th of September is mostly poor to marginal, with small, choppy, onshore waves.

So, to sum it up: the best bets are the clean afternoons on the 1st of September, that glassy session on the morning of the 6th, and the big, clean morning for experienced surfers on the 10th. The glassy morning on the 11th is also a beauty.

Rusty, signing off.

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