Hot and tiny
Hello Friends,
After a brief respite with a few drops of rain, skies were clear by 1100 and the temps were shooting up. Wind was out of the north at 10-15 kts but the metre-plus NE wind swell was a choppy 7 seconds apart, making for conditions like the above at Curly. Lots of folks in the water cooling off and waiting for the odd briefly catchable waist-high bomb set.
Our surf prospects don’t look too hopeful at all for the coming week. If the models are right, we’re in for good snorkeling conditions over the weekend and cloudy and showery weather from Tuesday onward. At the same time the swell’s not predicted to get above the metre mark and periods will bumble around in the sub-8 second range. Yeesh. Not good. And it looks as though the dire lack of surf will prevail from Philip Island in Vic to 1776 in Qld.
Anyway, the waves will return as they always do.
Go well!
Weather Situation
A northerly airstream along the coast is strengthening as a high pressure system near northeastern New South Wales is tracking to the northern Tasman Sea while a cold front moves through central parts of the state. The front will continue to move eastwards throughout the day, reaching the far northeast corner by Saturday morning. This system brings with it a cool, fresh and gusty southerly change in the wake. Then, the remnant feature of the front will become stagnant off the north coast and transition to a coastal trough while another ridge of high pressure extends across the south and east during the weekend through the early new week, interrupted by a series of troughs brushing the southern and central parts of the coast as coastal southerly changes.
Forecast for Friday until midnight
Strong Wind Warning for Friday for Sydney Coast
- Winds
- Northerly 15 to 20 knots shifting southerly 20 to 30 knots in the evening.
- Seas
- 1 to 1.5 metres, increasing to 1.5 to 2 metres offshore.
- Swell
- Southeasterly below 1 metre.
- Weather
- Partly cloudy. 50% chance of showers. The chance of a thunderstorm.
Saturday 28 December
Strong Wind Warning for Saturday for Sydney Coast
- Winds
- Southerly 20 to 30 knots decreasing to 15 to 25 knots before dawn then shifting east to northeasterly 10 to 15 knots in the late afternoon.
- Seas
- 2 to 2.5 metres, decreasing to 1 to 1.5 metres during the morning, then decreasing to 1 metre around midday.
- Swell
- Southerly around 1 metre, increasing to 1 to 1.5 metres during the morning.
- Weather
- Partly cloudy.
Sunday 29 December
- Winds
- Variable about 10 knots becoming east to southeasterly 10 to 15 knots during the afternoon then decreasing to about 10 knots during the evening.
- Seas
- Below 1 metre.
- Swell
- Southerly around 1 metre.
- Weather
- Sunny.