East Coast
The weekend is looking small to flat for Wicklow with only a small to flat wave Saturday with light offshore winds. Sunday is flat but starts off with light southerly winds strengthening later in the day.
South Coast
Tramore looks to have some nice clean small conditions with 2ft waves from a weaker 7 second period swell but the winds are very light which could have nice small longboard conditions with light offshore first thing turning to light onshore a little later. Best swells are early in the morning when it could be slightly bigger than the 2ft and winds are lightest. Sunday starts with light winds and 1-2ft conditions with the better waves first thing with winds getting up in strength towards midday turning cross shore.
South West
It looks like the earlier hours of Saturay is better for the winds with Garretstown starting off with 2-3ft conditions and light breezes staying around until early afternoon when the winds pick up slightly turning cross shore later in the day. Sunday sees the cross shore winds continue turning more cross onshore with 2ft conditions for the day but that wind will bring a bumpy face to the waves. Inch Beach in Kerry looks to start very early with light onshore winds but these look to pick up by 9am and stay onshore in the 12-15mph range all day with no shelter as the winds are mostly westerly on Saturday. Waves should be in the 2ft range on Saturday and 3ft range Sunday but the winds will remain onshore for Sunday building slightly on Saturdays strengths.
West Coast
Lahinch is showing some small conditions on Saturday morning in the 2ft range with very light winds until early afternoon turning onshore in the afternoon so get on it early with the tide off the rocks by 10am allowing you to enter safely after 9.30. Winds in the afternoon looks direct onshore Saturday afternoon and this looks set to continue into the Sunday making Saturday morning the best shout for Lahinch. Waves on Sunday should be 2ft weak blown onshore waves with the tide off the rocks by 10.30.
North West
There have been some epic conditions on Thursday of this week with Friday having a much smaller version of Thursday but Saturday looks to have a smaller version again with 1-2ft conditions for Strandhill with light offshore winds all day until evening when it turns light onshore but rarely getting above 2ft. Sunday could see the swell pick up above the 2ft range but this is paired with onshore winds all day so Saturday is the day for the cleaner conditions. In the Bundoran area it is looking like a Tullan day for Saturday with 1-2ft conditions and very light onshore breezes until evening when it turns more westerly and picks up a little. Sunday stays onshore all day with westerly winds in the 17-20mph range making things messy onshore with 2-3ft blown onshore waves.
North Coast
Saturday in Portrush is looking small to flat with light offshore winds all day turning onshore by evening. The small conditions look to continue through into Sunday with small to flat conditions with offshore winds first thing turning cross shore from the west by evening.
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Surf Safe and Enjoy,
Col,
Surf Improvers