Sunny and marginal
Hello Friends,
Nice morning for a walk along the beach and if you’re keen, there were knee to waist high glassy little bumps wafting into Dee Why. Wind was light westerly and the MHL buoy was detecting 1.3 metres of 10-sec period energy from the NE. At daybreak tide was coming off the pre-dawn low and filling in to a modest 1.28 m high at 1135. The mellow conditions should last through the morning before getting textured up by a light NE’r.
The gentle surf conditions should get ever so slightly more energetic tomorrow and Thursday. According to the swell models, Friday could be a bit bigger as a longer period east pulse arrives. The weekend’s currently shaping to be interesting. If the more hopeful predictions come to pass, we could see 2ish metre ESE wind swell and SW wind by Sunday. Then Monday, periods might stretch out and swell may be easterly in the 2+ metre range with SW wind… Autumn is upon us!
Go well with your Tuesday everyone.
Weather Situation
A high pressure system over the southern Tasman Sea is extending a ridge along the NSW coastline, while a trough is brushing the south, moving up the southern and central parts of the coast as a southerly change today through to early Wednesday. Then, another high pressure ridge is expected to drift across the state midweek, before a strong cold front moves across the coastal waters later in the week and into the weekend, with a fresh southerly wind change in its wake.
Forecast for Tuesday until midnight
- Winds
- West to northwesterly 10 to 15 knots turning north to northeasterly below 10 knots in the middle of the day.
- Seas
- Below 1 metre.
- 1st Swell
- Southerly around 1 metre.
- 2nd Swell
- Easterly around 1 metre.
- Weather
- Sunny.
Wednesday 8 April
- Winds
- West to southwesterly 10 to 15 knots shifting east to southeasterly in the late afternoon.
- Seas
- Below 1 metre.
- Swell
- Southerly around 1 metre, increasing to 1 to 1.5 metres during the afternoon.
- Weather
- Partly cloudy.
Thursday 9 April
- Winds
- Variable about 10 knots becoming north to northeasterly 15 to 20 knots during the day.
- Seas
- Below 0.5 metres, increasing to around 1 metre during the afternoon.
- 1st Swell
- Southerly around 1 metre inshore, increasing to 1 to 1.5 metres offshore.
- 2nd Swell
- Easterly around 1 metre.
- Weather
- Mostly sunny.