Long lulls on Thursday morning
Hello Friends,
If you thought the lulls were bad yesterday, I have bad news. They’re even longer this morning. Size looked to be in the chest high range on the one set I saw come in (see above). Tide hit a swampy 1.82 metre high at 0720 – so that wasn’t helping. The MHL buoy was detecting a metre of 16-second dead south swell at 0600. Wind was WSW at 5-7 kts as of 0800 but the Bureau says it’ll swing east and pick up into the 10-15 kt range as the day goes along. Best get amongst it early as I don’t see it getting any better today.
There were a few dark and heavy-bellied clouds dumping rain out at sea this morning. The latest long range forecast from the Bureau shows a showery day today and then rainy days for Friday and Saturday ahead of more showery weather to at least mid-week.
Hopefully the Goat will be along later today with thoughts about our surf prospects for the next seven days. I’m planning to head off to the mid-north coast Monday, so my fingers are crossed for a reasonable surf outlook.
Have yourself a top old Thursday one and all.
Weather Situation
A ridge of high pressure is expected to persist along the coast, directing an east to southeasterly flow. Winds will then turn fresh northeasterly late this week as a trough extends to central parts of the coast, possibly deepening to a low pressure system off the coast on Saturday before moving offshore. Fresh southerly winds are forecast to develop along the coast later in the weekend in the wake of the low.
Forecast for Thursday until midnight
- Winds
- Easterly 10 to 15 knots.
- Seas
- Below 1 metre.
- Swell
- Southerly around 1 metre.
- Weather
- Partly cloudy.
Friday 28 March
- Winds
- Easterly 15 to 20 knots tending northeasterly in the late evening.
- Seas
- Around 1 metre.
- 1st Swell
- Southerly around 1 metre.
- 2nd Swell
- Easterly around 1 metre.
- Weather
- Partly cloudy. 80% chance of showers.
Saturday 29 March
- Winds
- Northeasterly 20 to 30 knots turning northerly during the evening.
- Seas
- 1.5 to 2 metres, increasing to 2 to 3 metres during the morning.
- Swell
- Northeasterly around 1 metre inshore, increasing to 1 to 1.5 metres offshore.
- Weather
- Cloudy. 95% chance of rain. The chance of a thunderstorm.