East Coast
With another week of high pressures and good weather there is small to flat swell forecast for the east coast. Call into Hugh in Brittas Bay Surf School for SUP tours. They may also have lessons on the foamies for kids or beginners.
South Coast
Conditions remain small to flat on the south coast also with Tramore showing only around 6” but good SUP conditions. Give the team in Tramore Surf & SUP school a shout for tours.
South West
Garretstown is showing the possibility of 1ft which could go 1-2ft at times on the tides so possibly enough for a push on the Foamie for those keen to keep the arms going with Saturday evening and Sunday morning showing the most promise when it could go up to 2ft with light breezes. Inch Beach in Kerry is showing 2-3ft for Saturday but this will be with very light breezes of less than 10mph and a possibility of bigger coming into Saturday evening and Sunday morning of up to 3ft before it drops back again to . Sunday sees a good start but quickly drops back to 2ft again with the period and swell dropping as the day goes on so get on it early.
West Coast
So the forecast for Lahinch has been much smaller than the waves that have been turning up and this weekend I suspect will be no different. Currently (Friday) the forecast is for 3-4ft and the waves are barely breaking at 2ft for the longboarders. With the weekend showing 3-5ft on the forecast, I am going to predict that it will be between 2-3ft with light breezes but this could be 2ft depending on the tide when it is checked. Sunday looks to have a smaller 10 second period than Saturday’s 12 second period so waves will probably be more likely in the 1-2ft range but hopefully more of the 2ft variety depending on tides. Tides are high at 9am and pm Saturday and Sunday at 9.30am and pm so allow 1.5 to 2 hours either side for safe access and exit.
North West
Strandhill is showing 2-3ft conditions but there is very little north in the swell so I would expect this to be more in the 1-2ft range for Saturday with Sunday showing more likely small to 1ft with light breezes all weekend. In the Bundoran area things are looking nice today (Friday) at 2ft @ 12 seconds but Saturday looks to drop back to just over 1ft which may bring 1-2ft at Tullan but this will probably only bring the bigger waves to the first peak with most of the beach only showing 1ft with Sunday showing more of the same. Winds are light breezes onshore but these are less than 5mph so not enough to mess with the waves.
North Coast
It looked like some really epic conditions last weekend for the north coast with some great photos coming from Andy @ Troggs. This weekend is showing small to flat conditions for all spots this weekend with no winds or waves but good weather.
Surf Safe and Enjoy,
Col,
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