Surf forecast for Thurs 4 July into the week Monday 8 July
By Spike, Thursday @ noon

Summary
Sorry for the lack of reports. There's been surf to surf and swell to track around the coast. We're in a peak winter surge of feisty storms and big swell. The gift of the Neptune giver keeps on giving with lank swell for days and days, capped off with a ginormous SSW swell smacking into the underbelly of Africa in the early hours of Monday as the fetch winds in the passing storm below the country peak as the storm passes Agulhas, kinking into a SSW direction.
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The top swell size Chart 1 from Windy (we have set up a pro account with them, which means we can forecast at a more granular level) shows good swell action already tomorrow Friday at 9am in the wake of a cold front that starts to make landfall in Cape Town tonight, spreading east overnight into Friday. You're looking at 10ft+ ambient swell all round - more powerful and direct up to 15ft+ in Skaapstad - with low period and lots of wind and weather blowing past the Eastern Cape as the front moves up, but the grunt grows as the swell fills in all the way up the Ooskussed.

The weekend is looking gangbusters, with Saturday still firing but a bit smaller, but hardly a disappointment with residual peak period at least a solid enough 13 seconds and ambient swell 6-10ft, with wildside breaks going off. The storm and cold front that brought the swell was shooting from very close range, so the swell spread is wide and it ebbs relatively quickly, but you hardly notice because there is so much happening in the ocean right now with storms all over the show.

If you look at Chart 2 on Sunday morning you can clearly see the swell front from a new system starting to hammer Slaapstad with some serious 15 second grunt forerunner sets to 15ft+ and then growing as the main swell fills in all day up to 20ft on the bommies in the SW Cape and especially Kapitstad.
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While the Eastern Cape is not to be sniffed at on Sunday with 4-5ft surf on open coast building in size and period to maybe 6ft or bigger, you will have to wait until late Sunday evening and particularly Monday morning when the sheer ferocity of this new swell shows itself.

‍Chart 3 indicates just how punchy this swell is, with the JBay area getting rammed with a gruntish SSW groundswell with massive energy. That thing looks 20ft on the open coast! Cape Town also huge, but as you can see, the purple patch is where the peak power resides, and that's past Agulhas as the storm peaks to the S. All in all, KZN gets plenty action from all this action in the Cape, but much smaller.
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