East Coast
Conditions on the east coast are looking very flat for the weekend with the summer well and truly here as far as swell is concerned. Only option on the east coast is to give Hugh a call in Brittas Bay Surf School for a SUP Tour or lesson.
South Coast
Tramore is not looking like it will get over 6” for the weekend with no swell and no period to push any waves that direction.
South West
The waves in Garretstown are looking like they won’t get much over the 1ft range on Saturday with a weak period small swell with light cross offshore winds. Sunday looks a little better but only slightly with up to 2ft waves but these will be weak with only a 5 second period so most likely wind swell that’s travelled with cross onshore winds. Inch Beach in Kerry is showing a north westerly swell of a decent size but with the amount of north in the direction, it is going to struggle to get into Inch Beach and the winds are not favourable for the north side of the peninsula so not great options. Inch might have 2ft conditions on sets. Sunday sees more of the same but the winds have a touch more west in them meaning more onshore and even worse than Saturday with up to 2-3ft but blown over.
West Coast
Lahinch Beach is currently closed due to elevated levels of bacteria in the water. I therefore cannot recommend any get in the water and to do so might put their health at risk. (Conditions were onshore anyway so not great for improvers!)
North West
Conditions in Strandhill are looking like the winds are going to ruin play with a decent swell size coming through with 3-4ft waves but these will appear smaller with the onshore winds and poor period. Winds are up to 15mph onshore. Sunday sees the winds drop slightly but with moderate gusts onshore with 2-3ft conditions with it best in the afternoon. While the swell is nearly 6ft, it’s only an 8 second period which is pushed by the winds. In the Bundoran area it is looking like 3ft and onshore all weekend at Tullan making for messy conditions but if it is going to be onshore Rossnowlagh will have 2ft and handle the onshore a little better than Tullan.
North Coast
It is looking chunky on the charts for Portrush but in reality this is not going to produce heavy conditions as the periods are onshore wind swell with Saturday showing 3-4ft conditions possibly bigger on sets at East Strand and Whiterocks but the winds are a messy 20mph+ cross onshore leaving little shelter on either day.
Surf Safe and Enjoy,
Col,
Surf Improvers