Average period, with some better swell due late next week

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Craig Brokensha (Craig)

Nias, Mentawai, South Sumatra forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Thursday 23rd Jul)

Best Days: Most days over the coming period

This week and next week (Jul 24 – 31)

This morning should of started really slow, but a new S'ly swell should be building across exposed breaks, with a peak due tomorrow to an inconsistent 4-6ft. A slow drop is then due into Saturday and further Sunday.

Winds should become lighter from the S/SE over the coming days before picking up again through next week from the S/SE-SE.

Next week will continue to be rather average with a couple of inconsistent pulses of S'ly and S/SW groundswell Monday morning and Wednesday/Thursday respectively but to the 4-5ft range across swell magnets.

Later in the week we're now looking at some better S/SW groundswell from a strong and multi-staged polar frontal progression firing up south-east of South Africa over the weekend.

This should produce an inconsistent but good S/SW groundswell for Friday coming in at an infrequent 6ft+ across exposed breaks, with a couple of smaller reinforcing pulses through the following weekend, slowing the easing trend. We'll have a closer look at this Tuesday though.

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peter kelaher's picture
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peter kelaher Saturday, 25 Jul 2015 at 8:25pm

if we are surfing latitude zero resort that part of telo islands whats the best surf report to look on your site cheers pk

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AndyM Sunday, 26 Jul 2015 at 6:58pm

Pete from the island, is that you??

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udo Sunday, 26 Jul 2015 at 7:08pm

Fucking expensive internet at RLZ !

Rp 70,000 per hour.

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donweather Sunday, 26 Jul 2015 at 8:18pm

Indian Ocean gone way off the boil over the last few weeks and nothing of significance over the coming fortnight either. What's doing? Southey your blocking highs coming to fruition?

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Cylinders85 Sunday, 26 Jul 2015 at 8:37pm

Hasn't been the best season so far besides that big swell event. Should be pumping with back to back swell this time off year.