Yonabaru Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let's have a good hard look at what Yonabaru's got cooking for us over the coming weeks. Gotta be straight with you, the start of the period is a bit of a slow burner. We're looking at a few days of tiny, weak waves and mostly cross-off winds that won't do us any favours. It's gonna be a waiting game.

Right off the bat, Saturday the 4th and Sunday the 5th are pretty much a write-off. We're talking ankle-snappers at 2ft to 1ft from the ESE with a short period. The combined energy is weak (41), and with a cross-off breeze, it's just not worth suiting up. Monday the 6th sees a touch more life with the period jumping to 17 seconds overnight, but the swell is still tiny. The morning's got that long-period energy but only 1ft, and by the afternoon it's picking up to 2ft with a combined energy of 197. Still, "ordinary" is the word the charts are using, and I'm not arguing.

Now, Tuesday the 7th is where we finally get something to talk about. Tuesday morning, we've got glassy conditions, a 4ft SE groundswell with a solid 13-second period, and the combined energy is sitting at a moderate 422. That's clean, that's surfable. It's a beginner-friendly height, but the longer period means better-shaped waves. Then Tuesday afternoon, it gets even better. The swell bumps up to a very solid 5ft from the SE, the period stretches to a very long 17 seconds, and the energy jumps right up to 1036. Winds go light cross-off from the WNW. This is easily your best bet in the whole outlook. The water temp is 82°, which is about 1° below the norm, so pretty average for this time of year.

Wednesday the 8th is a different beast. The swell is way up, 10ft from the SE with an 18-second period. That's a powerful, long-period groundswell, and the energy is a strong 4969. This is expert territory for sure – too big for beginners. The problem is the wind. Morning is a cross-shore, but by afternoon it's turning cross-on from the NE, making it choppy and messy. For a point break or reef it'd be a dream, but at a fairly exposed beach setup like Yonabaru, that long-period swell might break a bit too straight. I'd say this window is more interesting for the kite crew than us paddle surfers.

From Thursday the 9th onwards, it's a total shut-down. We've got a risk of thunderstorms Thursday and Friday the 10th, with onshore winds screaming up to 31 mph. The swell vanishes into nothing, and the combined energy drops to zero. That nasty pattern of strong onshore winds and storms carries through the weekend and into the next week. There's a bit of a gap from July 9th through at least the end of the forecast window, with just tiny, useless waves and poor onshore wind.

In short, if you're keen, circle Tuesday July 7th on your calendar. The morning glass-off on the 4ft SE swell will be the cleanest, but the afternoon's 5ft SE groundswell with light cross-off winds is the real standout. The rest is a whole lot of nothing.

Rusty.

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