Vama Veche Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, here’s the deal. It’s flat. Totally flat. The whole 16-day window from the 14th through the 29th of September is showing nothing but “poor surf conditions” – no swell to speak of, no rideable waves, no dice. Zero energy hitting the beach. The combined energy reading is at 0, which tells you everything you need to know: there’s just nothing out there.

Now, I know that’s a tough pill to swallow, especially with that water sitting at a warm 75° – that’s a good 4° above what you’d usually expect this time of year, so the ocean feels like a bathtub. But with no waves, it’s just a nice place for a swim, not a surf.

We’re looking at a full stretch of nothing here. The 14th starts with a NW cross-off breeze at 15 mph, but it’s pushing nothing. A couple of mornings, like the 18th and the 24th, go glassy with no wind at all, which is a tease – clean surface but still dead flat. There’s a stretch around the 26th where we get a moderate offshore breeze from the west at 12 mph, and that would be prime if there was any swell, but there isn’t.

Even when the wind turns messy – like the 29th with that strong cross-on at 25 mph – it’s just chopping up an already empty ocean. No waves to mess up.

I hate to say it, but this is one of those blank runs that this area can throw at you. It’s not a surprise, but it doesn’t make it any easier. Vama Veche (Romania) is a beach-break setup, exposed to the east, and right now the east is giving us nothing but flatness.

In this kind of dry spell, you just gotta keep an eye on the charts and hope something shifts. Forecasts change, and it won’t stay poor forever, but as of now, there’s no surf to be had. I’d leave the board in the shed and maybe dust off the kite gear, because with this flatness and the wind that’s forecast, it’s looking more interesting for kite surfing than paddle surfing.

Keep the faith.

Rusty.

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