Whistling Sands (Porth Oer) Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let’s have a look at what’s on the cards for the next couple of weeks. Straight up, I gotta be honest with you – this is a tough stretch. We’re looking at Whistling Sands (Porth Oer), and honestly, the surf window is pretty much shut for a good while. The overall pattern is just not delivering any kind of decent wave for paddle surfing. There’s a real gap here, with no worthwhile surf on offer at all from the start right through the whole period. It’s a blank run, and for this sheltered little spot, that’s not unusual when the swell and wind don’t line up.

We kick off on Wednesday the 2nd of September. We’ve got a 5ft swell coming from the SW, but the period is a short, crumbly 6 seconds and the combined energy is weak at 178. The wind is a fresh cross-shore, but it’s just making a mess – lumpy cross-chop. The water’s a touch warmer than normal at 62°. Not a thing to get excited about.

Thursday the 3rd is more of the same misery. A bit smaller in the morning at 4ft, but the wind stays cross and fresh, so the surface is rough. Thursday afternoon sees the swell bump up to 6ft, but with a strong cross-shore and a combined energy of 231, it’s just a messy, blown-out crumble. Not for us.

Friday the 4th is a write-off with strong cross-onshore wind and a short period. The weekend doesn’t save us either. Saturday the 5th drops right down to 2ft. The afternoon has a light cross-off breeze, making it clean, but there’s no push – only 37 combined energy. It’s tiny and weak.

Sunday the 6th has a weird one. The morning shows a tiny 0.3ft swell with a very long 13-second period and fresh offshore wind, but the combined energy is just 10 – so clean but absolutely flat. The afternoon picks up a bit to 4ft from the SSW, and the wind is clean cross-off, so that’s the *only* session in the whole run that would even be worth paddling out for. It’s not great, but it’s all we’ve got. After that, we are back into a long stretch of nothing.

Monday the 7th is getting blown to bits by a near-gale cross-shore. Tuesday the 8th has a bigger 7ft swell from the W, but with a short 6-second period and a strong cross-onshore wind, it’s just a washing machine. Wednesday and Thursday are more of the same – messy, lumpy, and cross-onshore. By the end of the first week and into the second, the swell just collapses. From Sunday the 12th onward, we’re looking at waves under 2ft for days, with very little energy – mostly single and double-digit figures for combined energy. There’s a bit of clean wind here and there, like on the 16th with a light offshore, but the swell is only 0.7ft. Not surfable.

The best on offer? There isn’t a standout, but if you were really desperate, the Sunday the 6th afternoon session is the only one that’s clean and has a pulse. It’s a small 4ft SSW swell with a clean cross-off breeze. Not a classic, but it’s the only window where you might catch a few grovelly ones. Otherwise, the rest is a hard pass. For beginners, anything over 5ft is a handful here, but that doesn’t matter because the quality is so poor. The only thing that might look interesting is when the wind and swell pick up on the 7th and 8th – that’s kite-surfing territory, not for a paddle board. Keep the boards in the car for now, folks. Forecasts can change, but this one is a long, quiet one.

Rusty.

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