West Wittering Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let’s take a look at what West Wittering’s got cookin’ over the next couple of weeks. I’ll level with ya – it’s a rough one.

To be honest, the whole 16-day stretch is a total bust for any real surfing. We’ve got a long, dry period of almost no surfable swell. From now all the way through to the end, every session is marked down as poor conditions. There’s nothing on offer. The wave energy is either nothing or laughably weak, hanging between (1) and (23) for the most part, which is barely a ripple.

The only tiny blip comes on the afternoon of September 10th, where a southwest windswell shows up at 2ft with a terrible 3-second period. That’s not surf, that’s just messy wind-chop. The wind is straight onshore from the southwest at 19 mph, making a total mess of it. Even then, the energy is only (11), so forget it.

Otherwise, we’re stuck with ankle-biters. For days on end, the swell height is 0.3ft, sometimes with a period that looks decent like 11 or 12 seconds, but there’s no height behind it. It’s a cruel tease. The water temp though, if you’re just swimming, is weird. The first reading on the 8th shows 68°F with a 6°F anomaly, which is much warmer than normal for this time of year. Unusual, but doesn’t help the surf.

The best you can say is that from September 19th onward, we get some light offshore or cross-offshore winds from the northeast and east, keeping things glassy. But with 0.3ft waves, clean flatness is still just flat. The energy readings in this late stretch are between (1) and (8). It’s a no-go.

So here’s the sum of it: West Wittering is a sheltered, inconsistent beach and groyne setup, and this forecast is a total washout. There is not a single standout session. For this kind of forecast, you’re better off with a towel than a surfboard.

Rusty.

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