East Coast
Both Saturday and Sunday are looking small to flat on the east coast with no waves over 1ft coming into Wicklow. Winds are light offshore from the south west making for relatively calm conditions.
South Coast
Tramore is also looking very calm for the weekend with the waves not breaking much over 6” to 1ft and barely enough for a foamie. Winds are light onshore.
South West
Conditions in Garretstown might break the 1ft mark but with the small 8-9 second period, the conditions will be small and weak and will struggle to get very much push on the waves with the winds light onshore from the south west. Inch Beach in Kerry is showing a chunky north west swell which would normally struggle to get into Inch but with a good 14 second period, it should still bring 2-3ft conditions and possibly bigger on sets with light onshore winds for Saturday and stronger moderate onshore conditions for Sunday.
West Coast
Lahinch also struggles to let the north west swell in but with a good bit of push behind it and there being a god bit of west in the angle, some of the swell will get in but how much is the question with 6-8ft forecast but it will be nowhere near this with more likely 2-3ft with possibly bigger on sets and tides with the high tide in the afternoon around 3pm so best to get on it in the morning before it gets too high as the dark will not allow for waves after the high tide. Winds also turn onshore around lunchtime. Sunday sees similar conditions but the winds are much stronger for Sunday making for more messy onshore conditions gusting up to 30mph at times. Tide on Sunday is high at close to 4.30 but realistically with the conditions being moderate to strong onshore, it will be messy and you would want to be out of the water by around 2pm as the high is over 4m.
North West
Conditions around the northwest are looking chunky for the coming days with the north west swell getting in a little too easy to most spots with the better conditions being around spots that offer shelter from the swell with even the likes of Enniscrone being over 6ft and Streedagh probably being around 2-3ft and maybe bigger but dumpy but worth a look further up the beach but I suspect that it could take somewhere like Rossnowlagh to kill off some of the swell with even there pulling in 3ft waves and light winds southerly in the morning before turning onshore later in the day. The usual spots like Strandhill or Tullan will all be maxed out. Sunday is big and onshore for all spots leaving no surfable beaches.
North Coast
Portrush has been having a good run of waves with this set to continue but the waves are fairly chunky and only for the experienced as the waves coming through are well overhead with 6-8ft sets forecast for Saturday with a good chunky 14 second period with good wind conditions for East Strand until around midday and possibly a little cross shore for Whiterocks for the day. Sunday sees the winds pick up significantly leaving cross offshore conditions but probably a little too strong for anything decent.
Surf Safe and Enjoy,
Col,
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