Widemouth Bay Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, let's have a look at this in feet and miles per hour.

First off, gotta be straight with you: the whole sixteen-day look for Widemouth Bay is a tough one. We're starting off with a proper flat spell. There's a big gap right at the start where you'd be better off waxing your board than wetting it.

So, nothing starts to happen until Wednesday, August 12th. Even then, it's not exactly winning any contests. The morning shows a tiny 0.7ft swell out of the west, but it's clean with a light cross-offshore breeze from the southeast. The energy is still weak. The afternoon lifts a bit to a 0.9ft west swell, still clean, but still small.

Thursday, August 13th gets a bit more promising on the size front, with the swell hitting 3ft out of the west and the period stretching to 11 seconds. That's honest-to-goodness groundswell, which means better shape and more energy between sets. But the wind swings cross-onshore from the northwest, chopping the surface up. It's frustrating because the bones are there.

After that, we slide into a week of small, windy, and just plain poor conditions. Lots of onshore wind and short-period slop.

Here's the one big event, and it's for the hardcore only. Look to Saturday, August 23rd. The swell builds proper big to 8ft out of the west-northwest, with the combined energy ripping into a strong 698. That's serious power. But that size is strictly for experts, and with a period of 8 seconds on a beach break, it's going to be crumbly, bumpy, and heavy. The cross-shore wind from the north-northwest won't help the face much. It'll be a wild, lumpy mess.

Honestly, for those August 22nd and 23rd dates, with that strong onshore wind and that 6ft to 8ft swell, the setup looks way more interesting for kite surfing than paddle surfing.

Water temp is about 65°, which feels a touch warmer than usual for the area.

It's a lean run, folks. A lean run indeed.

- Rusty

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