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

Light rain, small waves

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