thinking out loud

Hello Friends.

Looking pretty small this morning. Not really surprising, considering the ESE windswell is only a metre out at sea and just 7 seconds apart. Wind is offshore and the skies are clear, but you’re going to be working hard to get anything much above knee high in Sydney I reckon. And from the look of the buoy data up and down the coast, this situation seems to more or less the same everywhere in NSW.

Wind is set to be offshore all day and to get up into the 15-20 kt range by this afternoon. Tomorrow it’ll be the same in the morning, but the Bureau sees ENE in the afternoon for Sydney on Tuesday.

The outlook for most of the east coast is for pretty small over the next 24-48 hours at least. It’s still looking as though we’re most likely to see a change to the surf situation late in the week when a brief pulse of straight south swell. Here’s hoping the models have it wrong and that we’ll get a touch of east to it when it gets here.

Have yourself a top old day and may the week ahead turn out particularly well for you!

Hello Friends,

What a beautiful Sunday morning in Sydney.  Light WNW breezes fanning the wine dark sea under cool but sunny skies. There is just the barest hint of a line coming into Dee Why. It’s maybe getting to waist high on the bigger ones. Not too many people in the water either.

Swell is out of the SE at a respectable average period of around 9 seconds. It’s only a metre or so out at sea though - hence the mainly tiny ones at our beaches.

The present conditions should stay in place until a SW change arrives later in the day. Swell should bumble along at more or less the present settings too.

According to the swell forecast models, we could see a slight improvement in period over the next 24 hours, but since there isn’t expected to be much change in swell height, I wouldn’t be getting too excited. The best hope on current reckoning for the Sydney region, is for a solid but brief pulse of 2 metre 10+ sec south swell around Friday.

Get out there and do something with this beautiful day!

Hello Friends,

Swell’s come up as anticipated. Not amazingly big, but there is a distinct south line and the wind is set to stay SW this morning. Dee Why seemed to be pretty setty while I watched, but the bigger ones looked to be near the shoulder high mark. Swell at sea is a touch under the 2 metre mark and period is a touch under 10 sec. Because it’s straight south, you won’t find waves just anywhere this morning, but get to some place with good exposure to that direction and you should get a little something. Wind is set to go around to the SE later, so the morning session appears to be the plan - if you can.

Have yourself a top old day!