Fading swell but clean this morning
Hello Friends,
Back in town for a couple of days, so of course, I must report!
Sunday morning saw blue skies, mild temps and a light WNW breeze rippling the fading south swell, As of 0630, it was 1.9 metres at 13 seconds from 166 degrees and the tide was coming off the low at 0640 and filling into the 1.66 m high tide at 1320. This was translating into chest plus sets at focal points, but it looked sort of fat and slow when I took the pics. Be that as it may, you’re highly likely to find something worth the effort to get in the 18 C water.
The mellow conditions look like they will gradually fade away to near flat by tomorrow and then – if the models are right, it’s going to stay meagre for the remainder of the week.
By then your correspondent will be getting an up close and personal look at life in California for a month or so. While I was pretty much offline for the last few weeks in the Outback, I’m expecting to pop up now and again with a postcard from the other side of the world over coming weeks.
Go well!
Weather Situation
Northerly winds are expected to strengthen along the coast today as a high pressure system reaches the Tasman Sea. These winds will persist through Monday and Tuesday and then shift west to southwesterly as a cold front and trough cross the coast later Tuesday and early Wednesday. After this, another ridge of high pressure is likely to develop.
Forecast for Sunday until midnight
- Winds
- North to northwesterly 10 to 15 knots tending north to northeasterly in the early afternoon then tending north to northwesterly in the late afternoon. Winds reaching up to 20 knots offshore in the evening.
- Seas
- Below 1 metre, increasing to 1 to 1.5 metres offshore by early evening.
- Swell
- Southerly 2 metres, decreasing to 1.5 metres during the afternoon.
- Weather
- Sunny.
Monday 15 September
- Winds
- Northwesterly 15 to 20 knots turning northerly in the middle of the day.
- Seas
- 1 to 1.5 metres, decreasing to 1 metre during the afternoon, then increasing to 1 to 1.5 metres by early evening.
- Swell
- Southerly 1.5 metres, decreasing to around 1 metre during the morning.
- Weather
- Sunny.
Tuesday 16 September
- Winds
- Northerly 15 to 25 knots turning northwesterly 15 to 20 knots during the afternoon.
- Seas
- 1 to 1.5 metres, increasing to 1 to 2 metres offshore.
- Swell
- Southerly below 1 metre.
- Weather
- Partly cloudy.