Westward Ho Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, let’s get into it. This is Rusty, and I’ve been staring at the charts for Westward Ho! over the next couple of weeks. Honestly, it’s a bit of a tough stretch for us. The whole 16-day window is pretty flat and blown out. There’s not a single recommendation that scores high enough to get stoked about, so we’re just going to walk through it session by session.

Right now, the water is sitting at a very warm 64°, which is *much warmer than normal* for this time of year – a big anomaly of over 4°. It’s a weird feeling, like summer has overstayed its welcome.

We start off today, Tuesday the 21st of July, with tiny 1 ft swell from the west. The morning is clean with a light cross-off breeze, but the energy is weak (23). The afternoon gets a cross-on wind, making it choppy. No good.

Wednesday the 22nd sees a little bump in swell to 3 ft from the NNW, but it’s a short-period windswell (5 seconds), and the cross-on wind keeps it messy. The energy is still weak (50). Thursday the 23rd morning is dead flat with 1 ft, but the wind goes glassy – the only nice moment of the week, but there’s no wave to ride. The combined energy is a measly 18.

We then hit a long, flat run. From Friday the 24th right through to August the 1st, the swell barely gets above 2 ft, and the direction is all over the place. The wind is mostly cross-on or onshore, keeping everything choppy and unpleasant. The combined energy stays below 100 for nearly every session – a lot of them are in the single digits. It’s a dead period.

On Sunday the 27th, a little 4 ft west swell shows up, but the period is only 7 seconds and the cross-on wind is 16 mph. The energy finally hits 107, but it’s blown out. Not worth it.

The only glimmer of hope comes right at the very end of the outlook. On Wednesday morning, August the 5th, we get a glassy morning with a 4 ft west swell. The combined energy is 130, and the calm wind means it would be clean. But the period is still short (7 seconds), and the wave shape is likely to be poor. The forecast gives it a score of only 1 out of 10, calling it “surfable waves but very ordinary conditions.” It’s the best we’ve got, but that’s not saying much. The afternoon session on the 5th gets blown out again.

So, for the next 16 days, there are no standout sessions. The forecast confidence is high for the first week (it’s just going to be bad), and the long-range promise on the 5th is still very uncertain. If you’re desperate, the morning of the 5th is your only window, but don’t expect much. For a beginner, the swell is manageable, but the quality is so low it’s not a good learning day. For experts, it’s just boring. This is a classic summer flat spell for Westward Ho! – it happens.

Rusty.

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