Late arvo update

The Duke's up near the top of the picture...

Hello Friends,

Decided to go picture-taking in Dee Why this afternoon and afterwards swung by the beach to see if I could get a pic of the conditions.

It was small, but not so small you couldn’t sort of bobble along on ‘em. Knee to waist high, I’d call it. Looked a touch bigger down at the south end but if you missed out… you didn’t really miss out. There were a few little waves around the corner at Dee Why beach as well. In fact, there were a couple at the point trying to make do with sets that were practically washing across the rocks.

Swell conditions really haven’t changed much since this morning. It’s still around a metre at 6 seconds from the NE according to the MHL buoy. Seems to be same up and down the coast of NSW too. So, not looking all that fab for tomorrow…

Indeed, I see no reason to re-calibrate my remarks from this morning. Still looks like it’ll be flat for the next three days.

Go well!

River surfing

Eisbach, Germany

YouTube – Munich Eisbach River Surfing.

Eisbach’s wikipedia entry

Montreal…

Zambezi River

Light rain, small waves

No one in the water at Dee Why this morning... (0900)

Hello Friends,

Good morning for pulling the doona up and leaving it a little longer. Really not much in the way of swell around the place at all. The buoy is showing a metre of 7sec period NNE windswell, but along the beach it doesn’t look much above 0.5 metre on the wave faces to me.

So, pretty much nothin’ doin’ for Sydney surfers today I’d say.

And it looks as though most of the coming week will be similarly puny. Ah, Spring.

However…

The forecast models are getting more optimistic about our prospects for next weekend. In fact, it’s looking as though it could get seriously big if it all goes the way the supercomputers say. Always prefer to be cautious on these things, but the current outlook is for 2-3 metres of 10+ sec period east swell to arrive late Thursday and to gradually push up into the 4-5 metre range on Saturday! And, because it’s coming from the east, it should be bigger than the sort of thing we see from a winter south swell with the same settings. Looks like there’s a thread on this topic starting up in our forums too…

Have yourself a top old day, and get up to some good where you can, eh?

Wet in, Wet out

Heavy showers and mild on the Central Coast this Sunday morning.  The swell is smooth, weak and very small at 1 – 2 feet from the east southeast.  There is a light west northwest breeze forecast to strengthen a bit more later.  High tide 0839 and low tide around 1420.  Local barometer 1005 hpa, 98% humidity, 14 degrees C.  Have a great weekend!