Saturday east swell
Hello Friends,
When I saw the beach yesterday evening at Manly, I was hopeful about this morning. And sure enough, the little east swell that was showing then, was lighting up beaches everywhere with shoulder-high wave faces on the sets. Swell at sea was 1.5 m at 7 seconds from the eastPlus, the weather’s cleared and the day got started with light NW wind.Tide was high at 0506 and will bottom out at a 0.74 m – which is a drop of less than a metre. And that means the banks that are working now, should be little changed through the day.
Surf prospects for the coming week look not too bad. The current east pulse will see the longer period stuff fade out, but it should still be at least sort of rideable tomorrow. Then we get a south change on Monday which will, according to some models, see the arrival of longer period energy from Tuesday into Thursday. Wind looks somewhat iffy in because the models showing it staying E-ESE, but the morning sessions hopefully will still be clean-ish because it should be less than 10 kts until midday or so.
Have a great Saturday!
Weather Situation
Northeasterly winds are being generated by a coastal trough along the north coast and a ridge of high pressure extending across the south. A cold front is forecast to move up the coast as a southerly change late Sunday into Monday behind which a new ridge of high pressure settled is forecast to settle bringing southeasterly winds through mid week.
Forecast for Saturday until midnight
- Winds
- North to northwesterly about 10 knots tending north to northeasterly 15 to 20 knots in the middle of the day.
- Seas
- Below 1 metre, increasing to 1 to 1.5 metres during the afternoon.
- Swell
- Easterly 1.5 metres, decreasing to around 1 metre around midday.
- Weather
- Partly cloudy. 50% chance of showers. The chance of a thunderstorm during this afternoon and evening.
Sunday 14 December
Strong Wind Warning for Sunday for Sydney Coast
- Winds
- North to northwesterly 10 to 15 knots tending north to northeasterly 15 to 20 knots in the middle of the day then shifting southerly 20 to 30 knots in the late evening.
- Seas
- Around 1 metre, increasing to 1 to 1.5 metres offshore during the afternoon.
- Swell
- Easterly below 1 metre, increasing to 1 to 1.5 metres during the morning, then tending northeasterly around 1 metre during the afternoon.
- Weather
- Mostly sunny. 50% chance of showers. The chance of a thunderstorm in the early morning.
Monday 15 December
- Winds
- Southerly 20 to 30 knots decreasing to 15 to 20 knots during the morning then turning southeasterly during the day.
- Seas
- 1.5 to 2.5 metres, decreasing to 1 metre during the morning.
- 1st Swell
- Southerly below 1 metre, increasing to 1.5 to 2.5 metres during the morning.
- 2nd Swell
- Northeasterly around 1 metre.
- Weather
- Cloudy.