thinking out loud

Hello Friends,

We’re in for more showers and grey skies this morning in Sydney. The swell seems to have backed off since yesterday afternoon - if Dee Why is any guide. Average size down there looks to be in the waist high range with the very occasional bigger one. Swell settings out at the MHL buoy are almost exactly the same as late yesterday afternoon when the sets looked to be a 0.5m bigger than what I’ve seen just now. The numbers are two metres on average, with 3 metre peaks from the ESE at 8-9sec.

On the good side, the junkiness factor seems to have diminished a little overnight and at 0800 there were very few people in the water. Surprisingly so, given the school holidays. Bureau’s call is for SW-SE at 10-15kts grading to 15-20 this afternoon.

Outlook for tomorrow is for the swell to drop back a little more and to swing closer to the east. If you’re interested in hearing my thoughts on the outlook for the week ahead, check out the vid-cast I posted to realsurf.tv last night. I’m trying to get one of these out every 2-3 days at the moment. And as you’ll see, I’m playing around with mixing in a little video footage as well as a few weather charts. Anyway, check it out at some point and lemme know what you think.

Have yourself a top old day, and go well with your plans!

Hello Friends,

Brrr. Cold this morning with powering up SW winds too. That’s going to keep most of the surf options in the south corners. Although before 0800, it was still pretty clean up the beach from DY, I’d guess that will change as the wind works into it. The swell has a touch more south to it this morning compared to yesterday afternoon. It’s out of the ESE at about 2 metres on average at sea. The period is around the 8 second mark, but there is some 11 second stuff in the mix according to the MHL data.  And that probably accounts for the distinct pattern of head high sets turning up for the school hols crowd jockying for position at the point.

The Bureau says that the SW will build through the day to 20-30 kts, and the swell should continue to push up a little with it.

Tomorrow looks as though it’ll be much the same and on current reckoning, Wednesday will be more of the same again, thanks.

With luck, the average period will nudge up a bit as the week goes along. One thing you can say from the perspective of Monday morning, it really looks like there should be something surfable around the place all week - so long as you don’t mind a bit of chop!

Get out there, get into it if you can and have a top old Monday!