Wait for it

Hello Friends,
The ocean looked pretty still this morning, but then a waist to chest high set wave shows up and you realise there’s still a little something left in the swell. It was 1.1 m at 13 seconds from the SE (163°) as of 0700. Wind was coming lightly from the west under sunny but slightly hazy skies along the beaches.
Outlook is for it to stay around the current settings for the next day or so and then the models are showing the period dropping below the 10 second mark from the south. So quiet, but hopefully not totally flat everywhere. Ocean’s clean and temp is sitting on 22C.

Weather Situation
A ridge of high pressure is extending across from the west while a low pressure system over the Tasman Sea moves away to the east. This ridge of high pressure will persist across the north while a series of cold front pass to the south during the week. One of these cold fronts looks set to bring a strong south to southwesterly change during Tuesday and Wednesday.

Forecast for Monday until midnight
Winds
West to northwesterly about 10 knots tending northeast to northwesterly 10 to 15 knots in the middle of the day. Winds reaching up to 20 knots offshore in the late evening.
Seas
Below 0.5 metres, increasing to around 1 metre during the afternoon.
Swell
Southerly around 1 metre.
Weather
Mostly sunny.

Tuesday 20 April
Winds
North to northwesterly 10 to 15 knots tending west to northwesterly 15 to 20 knots before dawn.
Seas
Below 1 metre, increasing to 1 to 1.5 metres offshore.
Swell
Southerly around 1 metre.
Weather
Sunny.

Wednesday 21 April
Winds
West to northwesterly 15 to 20 knots turning south to southwesterly 20 to 30 knots during the day.
Seas
2 to 3 metres, decreasing below 1 metre during the evening.
Swell
Southerly below 1 metre, increasing to 1 to 2 metres during the afternoon or evening.
Weather
Partly cloudy.