Wraps Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, folks, Rusty here. Let’s take a look at what’s happening at Wraps.

Well, I gotta be straight with you – this whole stretch is a tough one. The entire 16-day run is basically a write-off for decent waves. There’s nothing good on offer from the start, and it stays that way all the way through. We’re lookin’ at a solid couple of weeks with no real surf to get excited about.

Right from Friday the 10th, the wind is howling out of the ENE at 22 mph. It’s onshore and messy, and the swell is a lumpy 6 ft from the ENE with a short period of 7 seconds. The combined energy is moderate at 366. It’s just poor conditions.

Saturday the 11th is more of the same – 7 ft of weak, short-period ENE windswell and that same brutal onshore breeze. The wave energy climbs a bit to 437, but with the wind still hammering it, it’s just a churned-up mess.

Sunday the 12th is arguably the worst. The wind swings cross-onshore and picks up to 25 mph. The swell hits 7 ft, but the period is only 8 seconds, and it’s described as “strong cross-onshore and messy”. The energy reads 596, but with that much wind, you wouldn’t want to be out there on a surfboard – honestly, this setup looks far more interesting for kite surfing than paddle surfing.

The rest of the week and into the next just keeps the same sad story. From Monday the 13th through to Saturday the 25th, it’s a relentless parade of ENE winds, onshore or cross-onshore, with swell sizes bouncing between 3 ft and 7 ft. Periods are short, mostly 6 to 8 seconds, and the wave energy stays in the moderate range, dropping from the 300s and 200s down to the high 100s by the end. The water temp anomaly isn’t given, so no word on that, but it doesn’t matter much when the waves are this poor.

There are no standout days. No window of clean glassy surf. No good wind. No solid, lined-up swell. The optimum swell direction here is from the NE, but the wind is almost always blowing from that same ENE direction or onshore, ruining any chance of a clean wave. Even when the swell direction finally shifts to NE on the 23rd and 24th, the wind is still too strong or cross-onshore.

Bottom line: for the next 16 days, leave the boards at home. This is a full-on blank run. The forecast can always change, but right now, it’s a real bummer.

Rusty.

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