If only the waves were bigger
Hello Friends,
All the settings were in place for a classic late summer morning session – bar one rather important component. Swell should be pushing up this morning, but when I grabbed the snaps before 0700 this morning it was still in the knee to waist high range. The wind call is for a swing to the SE and then south this afternoon. As of 0500 the MHL buoy was showing a mix of sub-10sec NE to E energy in the metre-ish range, but by this afternoon we should have a noticeable increase in the south swell and tomorrow the Bureau says it’ll build into the 2-4 metre range by the afternoon. The wind should be out of the SW all day tomorrow, so you have to like those prospects.
And the coming surf week looks, shall we say, promising!
Forecast issued at 4:29 am EDT on Saturday 15 February 2025.
Weather Situation
A southerly change near the central coast early Saturday morning will move further up the coast today, reaching far northern waters late Saturday night and bringing gusty conditions. A low pressure system is expected to form in the Tasman Sea after this change which may bring some additional southerly surges during the weekend.
Forecast for Saturday until midnight
- Winds
- South to southwesterly 15 to 20 knots. Winds tending southeasterly 10 to 15 knots in the early afternoon then tending southerly 15 to 20 knots in the late evening. Winds reaching up to 25 knots offshore during the morning and again in the late evening.
- Seas
- 1 to 2 metres, decreasing to 1 metre around midday.
- 1st Swell
- Southerly around 1 metre, increasing to 1 to 2 metres during the morning.
- 2nd Swell
- Northeasterly 1 to 1.5 metres.
- Weather
- Partly cloudy. 60% chance of showers.
Sunday 16 February
Strong Wind Warning for Sunday for Sydney Coast
- Winds
- Southwesterly 15 to 25 knots tending south to southwesterly 20 to 30 knots in the middle of the day.
- Seas
- 1 to 2 metres, increasing to 2 to 3 metres around midday.
- 1st Swell
- Southerly 1.5 to 2.5 metres, increasing to 2 to 4 metres during the afternoon.
- 2nd Swell
- Easterly 1 to 1.5 metres.
- Weather
- Partly cloudy. 50% chance of showers.
Monday 17 February
- Winds
- Southerly 20 to 30 knots decreasing to 10 to 15 knots during the evening.
- Seas
- 2 to 3 metres, decreasing to 1 to 2 metres during the morning.
- Swell
- Southerly 2 to 3 metres inshore, increasing to 2.5 to 4 metres offshore.
- Weather
- Partly cloudy.