East Coast
Saturday on the east coast looks to start off with a 1ft wave that could possibly be a little bigger but the swell is dropping fast from the strong winds that have blown overnight. These winds blow moderate to strong southerly for the day on Saturday. By midday this has dropped back to below 1ft and then is flat by Sunday.
South Coast
Saturday in Tramore is showing 2ft conditions blown over by moderate onshore winds making for messy conditions. This continues into Sunday and has a little more westerly direction in it which doesn’t improve things making for cross onshore conditions in the 2ft range.
South West
Garretstown is looking to have messy conditions for Saturday with winds gusting up to 30mph with 3ft blown over conditions. Sunday looks to have much lighter winds which could make for better surfing conditions with 2ft waves and light breezes. It won’t be 100% clean but it could clean up a little. Inch Beach in Kerry is showing to be maxed out conditions on Saturday from the 11ft swell at an 11 second period making for big windy on shore waves. Sunday sees the winds back off quite a bit with the winds blowing light breezes onshore in the morning then going to light southerly around midday and then stronger by evening on Sunday.
West Coast
Saturday in Lahinch is looking like it is going to be messy onshore like a lot of places but Sunday looks like it could have some really nice conditions with light onshore winds in the morning turning to offshore later in the day with a good swell of 7-8ft @ 11 seconds. This swell has a touch of north in it so this will kill off the waves back to 3-4ft but they should be somewhat clean. Tides are middling between 2m and 3.4m so there should be very little difference between low and high meaning the tide should only be on the rocks for an hour or so on Sunday around 1pm so leave time either side for safe entry and exit.
North West
Strandhill like much of the west coast is a mess on Saturday with winds gusting up to 30mph onshore making it a day to skip but Sunday shows to have some larger conditions that are clean so you should be looking at spots that will kill some of the size and favour the wind direction like Streedagh or Enniscrone which should have 3ft conditions in Streedagh and bigger at 4-5ft in Enniscrone with light winds in both spots. In the Bundoran area Saturday is a write off and the winds don’t look to turn or drop until later in the day meaning westerly winds until around midday when they lighten and then the afternoon by the time things back off but even then it will be too big for Tullan and really only favour Rossnowlagh.
North Coast
Portrush has had their really god conditions on Friday with up to 6ft waves and offshore winds but Saturday and Sunday look to be a little messy with the winds with Saturday showing winds gusting cross shore for East Strand and cross offshore for Whiterocks with waves in the 4-5ft range but moderate to strong winds. Sunday sees the winds only drop by evening and until then its moderate to strong cross shore from the west but only a breeze by evening for those keen.
Surf Safe and Enjoy,
Col,
Surf Improvers