Valdovino Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Right folks, Rusty here. Let's get stuck into this forecast for Valdovino. I gotta be straight with you, the first week or so is a bit of a write-off. We've got a real dry spell on our hands for a stretch there, so patience is the name of the game.

The surf window kicks off Monday morning, the 10th of August, but it’s barely a whisper. We’re looking at a tiny 2ft swell from the NW with a short period of 9 seconds. The combined swell energy is pretty weak (95), so you're just getting some surfable but very ordinary conditions. The wind is light and glassy from the NE though, so it’ll be clean, but you'll be fighting for scraps.

From there, we hit a major lull. From Monday afternoon right through to Wednesday the 19th of August, the conditions are just poor. The wind swings cross-shore and picks up, and the surf quality goes right out the window. There’s a few small bumps of NW swell in there, but the winds are all wrong, creating a cross-chop that’ll have you frustrated. That's a good eight or nine days of flat, messy water.

Things start to look up on Wednesday the 19th of August. We get a bit of a pulse in the morning with a 2ft NW swell and a clean, cross-off breeze. It’s still only surfable and very ordinary, but it’s a step in the right direction. The real standout, however, looks like it might be the morning of Thursday, the 21st of August. We’ve got a 3ft swell from the NNW with a decent 11-second period, which is a groundswell. The combined energy is up to a moderate 309, and the wind is glassy from the SW. That combination should produce some clean, lined-up waves. It’s still a small day, but it could be the cleanest surf of the whole run.

Saturday the 22nd of August also has potential in the morning. A 5ft NNW swell with a 9-second period and glassy wind from the WNW gives us a combined energy of 389. That's promising, but as the afternoon goes on, the wind swings onshore and chops it up.

For the long range, the morning of Monday the 24th of August has a 6ft NE swell (combined energy of 306), but it’s a short period, wind-affected swell with a cross breeze. It's marginal, something to keep an eye on, but nothing to get too excited about from this far out.

The water temp is about average for the time of year, so nothing unusual there.

So, to wrap it up: the real window for Valdovino is that Thursday morning, the 21st of August. It's the only one that truly ticks the boxes for clean, glassy conditions with a bit of groundswell energy. The Saturday morning before that is a close second. The rest is a long wait for a few scraps.

Stay patient.

Rusty.

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