Hellesto Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, grab a coffee, 'cause I gotta level with ya. The next couple of weeks here are lookin' pretty grim. I'm Rusty, and I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but we're in for a long, flat, and blown-out stretch. There's nothing that's really worth paddling out for at Hellesto.

Right now, at the start of the period, we've got a bit of swell, but the wind is howling from the WNW at 22 mph and the rain is coming down. Swell around 6 ft (329 weak) is just gonna be a messy, lumpy wall of whitewater. The water temp is a bit colder than normal for this time of year at 58°. Forget about it.

We limp through a few days of tiny, gutless swell with some better winds, but the surf stays tiny—under 1 ft. The energy readings are pathetically low, in the single digits. A glassy morning on the 12th sounds nice for a coffee on the beach, but there's nothing to ride.

The middle of the week, the 13th and 14th, shows some cleaner conditions with a cross-offshore breeze, but the swell is small and weak. We get a bit of 4 ft to 4 ft swell from the SSW, but the period is a short, weak 6-7 seconds, and the energy is only low to moderate (111-114). It’s surfable but very ordinary—definitely not a standout.

Then the weekend hits us again on the 15th and 16th. The swell picks up to 6 ft to 6 ft from the NW, but the wind swings back onshore from the NNW at 19-25 mph. The wave energy hits moderate levels (227-284), but the quality is just blown out. This is more of a kite-surfing setup than a paddle-surfing one.

We get a tiny, glassy window on the morning of the 17th, but again, the swell is barely a ripple at 1 ft. The 18th offers the only "surfable" conditions of the whole run, with a clean 3 ft from the SW, but the energy is low (73) and it’s not going to get the heart racing.

After that, it’s a long, barren stretch from the 19th right through to the 25th. We get some longer-period (10-11 sec) but very small (0.7 ft-3 ft) swells mixed with gale-force winds from the NNW. The energy readings stay either weak or low, and the wind is either onshore or cross-onshore, making everything a mess.

Honestly, the forecast is a total write-off. There are no standouts, no sneaky windows, no decent swell. It's a blank run for the area, and it's normal to see these long gaps with no surf. We just gotta wait for another system to breathe some life back into it.

Rusty.

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