Nice morning, shame about the waves
Hello Friends,
Great day for a beach walk at Dee Why but if you forgot the board it wouldn’t be a total disaster. Amazingly there is 3.2 metres of 11 second swell out at sea. Unfortunately the energy is coming from 184 degrees, so it’s headed off to New Zealand and we’re not seeing much of anything at spots like Dee Why. There’ll be more energy getting in around at Curly and similarly angled stretches. The wind was 7-10 kts from the west as of 0730, but you need to make haste. It’ll be southerly soon.
The Bureau tells us to expect SW wind tomorrow morning and while the swell is due to drop back into the 2 metre range by then, I’m hoping the models showing it going more SSE are right. That’d light up more spots on what promises to be another mainly sunny day.
Go well!
Forecast updated at 6:13 am EDT on Monday 17 February 2025.
Weather Situation
A low pressure system in the Tasman Sea continues to deepen, bringing a burst of southerly winds up the coast. Winds will become lighter into Tuesday as a high pressure ridge becomes dominant about the waters, before a front passes to the south on Wednesday, producing another surge of southerly winds along the coast.
Forecast for Monday until midnight
- Winds
- Southerly 15 to 25 knots decreasing to 10 to 15 knots in the late evening.
- Seas
- 1.5 to 2.5 metres, decreasing to 1 to 1.5 metres around midday.
- Swell
- Southerly 2 to 2.5 metres inshore, increasing to 2.5 to 4 metres offshore.
- Weather
- Partly cloudy.
Tuesday 18 February
- Winds
- Southwesterly 10 to 15 knots tending west to southwesterly in the morning then shifting east to southeasterly in the early afternoon.
- Seas
- Around 1 metre.
- Swell
- Southerly 2.5 to 3 metres.
- Weather
- Partly cloudy.
Wednesday 19 February
- Winds
- East to southeasterly 10 to 15 knots tending east to northeasterly during the evening.
- Seas
- Below 1 metre.
- Swell
- Southerly 2 to 3 metres, decreasing to 1.5 to 2 metres during the evening.
- Weather
- Partly cloudy.