thinking out loud

Hello Friends,

Good job they aren’t having to run Bells on Sydney’s swell. Those quarter finals wouldn’t be too riveting in the knee to waist high conditions we’re looking at where spots like Dee Why are concerned. Overnight Huey’s turned down the power setting on us. MHL’s buoy is reporting about a metre of SE windswell at an anemic 6 seconds on average. Said buoy is also showing some 12 sec component, so I’d be guessing that spots with good south exposure could possibly be seeing the occasional rogue set into the chest high range. For the most part though, I wouldn’t be expecting to find much of anything too astounding around our region’s beaches. But, hey, at least it’s not totally and utterly zippo!

The Bureau is saying that Sydney can expect light offshores this morning. Those westerly tendencies will gradually fade as the onshore builds out of the SE and gets to around the 15kt mark this afternoon.

The forecast models are still showing a little uptick for us from late tomorrow through Saturday, but I’ll wait to see what the Goat says before getting too many hopes up. Those same models are calling for longer period but small conditions early in the week. It’s good to see that they’re projecting the development of something a bit more interesting toward Wed-Thr for the southern to central NSW coast… however, since this projection is at the outer limit of the forecast, I wouldn’t be planning any trips away just yet…

Enough of these idle speculations! A fresh day awaits! Go well with it!

Hello Friends,

It’s just about, but not quite flat along the Dee Why stretch this morning.  There were a few folks in the water on mals and standup paddleboards having a cut at the glassy one-footers. But I doubt they’d be ranking this in their top 100 sessions for the year.

Still looking pretty uninspiring for the next day or so.  At the moment the mainly east 8sec windswell is averaging a little under a metre off the coast of Sydney. The Bureau says winds will be WNW in the morning and then become light and variable in the afternoon ahead of a late SW change. Tomorrow we’re in for SW in the morning, but it’ll swing SE in the afternoon. That could possibly push the swell up a little by Friday, but the models aren’t overly hopeful about the size. With luck, we’ll have a few chest to head high sets at south facing spots.

Another good day for catching up on the non-surfing dimensions of your life if you’re on the east coast.

Go well!

Hello Friends,

So, a truncated workweek gets started, eh? If you’re already at work or school and you didn’t manage to get in this morning, don’t feel too hard done by. There really wasn’t much of anything going on. All we’ve got in the Sydney region (and pretty much the rest of NSW) is around a metre of 7 sec period east windswell. That translates into not much at all at most spots. Dee Why looked to be in the knee to waist high range for instance.

Huey’s diary looks pretty open for the next couple days. The first entry of any interest to those of us in the Sydney region is around midday on Friday when the models show us getting a weak south pulse. By weak, I mean something in the waist to chest high range on the bigger sets at spots that take dead south swell (hello Bondi!).

Beyond Friday, the outlook is of course hazier as the computer models push up against the natural limits imposed by the fundamentally chaotic nature of weather… but… what they show does not encourage great hopes for surf along the east coast. Oh well… we’ll keep an eye on it for ya as usual and maybe the Goat will have more encouraging words when the releases his weekend outlook in a couple days…

Right, on with it! Let’s hop into our respective days and enjoy what come our way…