Super small but tiny options on offer
Hello Friends,
Just back from a look at the beaches. It’s flat most places, but there were ankle to knee high wavelets at Manly and North Curly.
Weather was absolutely perfect – sunny, warm and lightly offshore – but swell energy remains at a very low ebb. The MHL data from 0700 was showing 0.8 metres of swell at 11.8-sec from the south. The period was evident from long lined sets that would turn up every now and then to briefly interrupt the utter flatness.
The wind will go NE soon and that will erase any surf prospects. Tomorrow we should see a brief south pulse. The wind call looks iffy, but maybe, possibly as the swell fills in there will be a wave to be had in the afternoon.
As always, we shall see.
Go well everyone.
Weather Situation
A ridge lies over NSW waters, bringing southeasterly to northeasterly winds. Winds will turn northeasterly and freshen Wednesday ahead of a cold front which will bring a fresh to strong southerly change to NSW waters from late Wednesday, starting from the southern coast and reaching the northern coast later on Thursday. Winds will turn southeasterly Friday then easterly Saturday and Sunday as a new ridge forms along the coast in the wake of the cold front.
Forecast for Wednesday 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
- Southerly below 1 metre.
- Weather
- Mostly sunny.
Thursday 12 February
Strong Wind Warning for Thursday for Sydney Coast
- Winds
- Northwest to northeasterly 15 to 25 knots tending southerly 20 to 30 knots in the early afternoon then tending south to southeasterly 20 to 25 knots in the late evening.
- Seas
- 1 to 1.5 metres, increasing to 2 to 2.5 metres during the afternoon.
- 1st Swell
- Southerly around 1 metre, increasing to 2 metres by early evening.
- 2nd Swell
- Northeasterly around 1 metre.
- Weather
- Partly cloudy. 60% chance of showers.
Friday 13 February
- Winds
- Southeasterly 15 to 20 knots tending easterly 10 to 15 knots during the evening.
- Seas
- 1 to 2 metres, decreasing to 1 metre during the morning.
- Swell
- Southerly 2 to 3 metres, decreasing to 1.5 to 2 metres during the afternoon or evening.
- Weather
- Cloudy.