Windansea Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let's have a look at what Windansea is doing over the next couple of weeks.

To be straight with you, the outlook for Windansea over the next sixteen days is pretty grim. We're looking at a solid run of poor surf conditions, with hardly any windows of quality. The swell is there, but it's almost always battling the wrong wind direction, leaving it choppy and messy.

Monday the 14th kicks things off with a bit of energy – the swell’s around 4 to 4 ft from the west with a combined energy of 405, but that cross-onshore wind from the SSW at 9 mph is just ruining it. It’s gentle cross-onshore and fairly choppy. Not worth paddling out for.

Through Tuesday and Wednesday, the swell drops, and while we see a few longer period swells – up to 20 seconds on Tuesday afternoon – that only makes things trickier at a spot like this. Windansea is a reef break, so those long period groundswells can actually wrap in nicely here, but the cross-onshore wind just kills the potential. The water temp anomaly is about average for this time of year, so no surprises there.

From Thursday the 17th right through to the end of the month, it’s the same story: small swell, mostly in the 2 ft to 3 ft range, combined energy floating between 280 and 498, but almost always with a cross-on wind. The only faint glimmer is that by the morning of the 21st of September, the rating hits a meager 2/10, and the swell is a consistent 3 ft from the SW with a 17-second period, and it's glassy with light onshore wind – that's about as clean as it gets in this stretch. For a couple of sessions around that Monday, the 21st, you might catch a few lined-up but weak waves if you’re desperate.

The second week, from the 22nd onward, it’s flat and unremarkable. Swell direction stays SW, period drops, and the wind, while lighter, stays onshore or cross-onshore. Nothing to get excited about.

Truth is, there’s no real standout here. If I had to pick the closest thing to a session, I’d say the morning of Monday the 21st of September is your best bet – small 3 ft SW groundswell with a 17-second period, light glassy conditions, and at Windansea that long period might offer a few clean lines. But don’t expect much – it’s a marginal call at best.

Rusty.

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