"Stay happy and you'll be perfectly fine" - Jack Norris

Sunny but small

Looks like a good morning for beachcombing...
Looks like a good morning for beachcombing...

Hello Friends,

Lovely morning for Saturday in Sydney, but the surf prospects are not too flash. If you’re extra keen, you might be able to extract a knee to waist high set wave at a south facing spot. The swell out at sea is coming from the south at about 10 seconds apart on average. But because it’s only a metre or so, I’m not exceptionally hopeful. Dee Why looks pretty close to flat for instance and I’d be surprised if it was dramatically bigger elsewhere.

Outlook for the next little while is not encouraging. The Bureau says we should start to see a few showers toward evening and more of the same tomorrow. That would be neither here nor there if we had some waves to play with, but from the look of the models, we’re in for a spell of flatness through the middle of the week.

Happily those same models are still showing a broad area of easterly fetch to the NE of NZ that will, with luck actually come to pass. Should it do so, we could be looking at a fun size east swell developing from about Thursday morning. Good to have something to pin one’s hopes upon…

Go well with your day!

ps: want to hear my surf report and forecast chat from this morning on ABC 702? Click here!

Pretty sky above South Head
Pretty sky above South Head
Classic Hawkesbury river fog splashes over Lion Island around 0915.
Classic Hawkesbury river fog splashes over Lion Island around 0915.