thinking out loud

Hello Friends,

Looks like a mild Friday for those of us lucky enough to live in Sydney. Out on the coast we’re supposed to get to around 22, while folk inland are looking at an equally pleasant 23. As I begin writing this around 0730, the wind is light and there are big swathes of blue sky. But the surf… you wanted surf? Well, if we look at Huey’s scribbles on the MHL Sydney buoy, we see an average period of just 7 seconds and an average height of just a touch under a metre. The bulk of the energy - such as it is - is coming from SE.

The call is for the wind to wander around between the south and the east at about 10-15 kts.

I’d say the Goat’s call for the day is still holding. Not a lot on offer basically for the east coast.

I’ll take a look at the longer range trends tomorrow, but right now it looks to me as though our best hope is for a small east pulse filling in tomorrow. I’m cautious though, because there’s not a hint of it on the MHL buoy data at the moment.

Have yourself a top old Friday and go well with your endeavors!

Hello Friends,

Coming off the high tide this morning, there were some intersting looking little things coming in along the stretch of beach north from Dee Why SLSC. There was even an almost-rideable set at the point when I was eyeballing the situation around 0645. As you can see from the pic I posted, the faces on the bigger sets are into the chest high range.

The windswell is coming mainly from the east at about 8 seconds and is averaging around a metre according to MHL’s Sydney buoy. The only significant change from yesterday is the direction - otherwise Huey seems to have left all the settings untouched for this morning’s offering.

According to the Bureau, we’re due to have 10-15 kts of ESE wind today. Not the best for surface conditions, but what can ya do? They’re saying it’ll go along this way through Saturday. So, as usual, the earlier you get to the beach, the better the surface conditions.

Good to see a little low off Queensland in the Bureau’s synoptic for Sunday. With luck that’ll help push up the energy levels a touch. Obviously it’ll be more useful for those of you up along the far north NSW and SE Qld coastline. I’ll be interested to see what the Goat makes of it all…

Have yourself a top old day!

Hello Friends,

The forecast was for the possibility of a few showers in the Sydney region, but it doesn’t look likely now. Warm and humid with just a faint breeze. The cicadas are loving it.

Surf situation is similar to yesterday as far as my little stretch of Sydney’s northern beaches are concerned. There are some tiny little things trickling in at spots with good exposure to the mainly south windswell. But size is really only up to about waist high most places. There might be the odd chest high bomb if you’re lucky, but it’s really more a morning for swimming, beachcombing, fishing, sauntering… you get the picture.

From the look of things, we’re pretty unlikely to see much of a change to conditions in the Sydney region for the next 4 days, but then things may possibly shift a bit toward surfin’ Nothing I’m too excited about right now, but a couple of the long range models seem to be showing some interesting developments just off the coast of SE Queensland that could see a little low pop up with consequent positive implications in the east swell department. If one of the models is correct, next Monday-Tuesday should be mighty fine on the Goldie with a nice east swell, south wind combo. Whether or not that system pushes down to wave starved Sydney is up to Huey, but I like the sounds emanating from his Tuesday next week wave department.

Get out there if ya can, and breathe deep, you’re on this planet for another day. Go well with it.