Sunny but small

0730: you need something bouyant to catch the sets this morning.

Hello Friends,

Bright and sunny along the coast of Sydney this morning. There’s quite a bank of cloud out on the eastern horizon, but from the look of the radar, it’s heading away from us. Speaking of things heading away from us, the swell seems to fall into that category. It’s currently averaging around a metre from the south at 7 seconds apart.

What that means, as the Goat’s forecast yesterday noted, is that your best hope of a wave is going to be at those spots that face directly south. And even then, I reckon you’ll be scratching to get much of anything substantial. Prospects are not looking too fabulous for the next week it has to be said. Spring is springing, I guess.

That said, I’m sure my fellow forecast model watchers are keeping an eye on the forecast mid-next week development of a major area of fetch heading east toward us from a region immediately NE of NZ. If it plays out the way the models are currently suggesting, we could see some pretty juicy ESE swell starting to fill in from late Wednesday along the far north coast. Again, bearing in mind that this is right at the outer edge of the forecast range, it’s not clear to me that we can expect much of it this far down the coast. But who knows, perhaps by next weekend, we could be looking at an east coast being lit up by a solid groundswell… hey, I can dream can’t I?

Go well with your day!

Afternoon Update 230pm

Been a strange day for the surf. First thing this morning, flat; then at lunch for about half an hour some chest high sets, then a southerly kicked in and it’s gone and flat again. At 230 it’s not flat but it’s not too nice. S wind around 12 knots is slopping it up and the swell is backing off. Wouldn’t be rushing away from work in hopes of anything special in the water today. Looks like more of the same tomorrow except the wind will be NE then N, strengthening by Sunday to up to 30 knots, unfortunately no increase in swell on the charts that I can see…

nothing too special

1-2ft range, W/SW wind, cool, cloudy a few showers about. Surfable but fairly unspectacular. You’re not missing it. Rosco.

Mona Vale

MV looks good from the photos but was really fat when your out there, i'd be checking elsewhere for a surf

Cronulla

Sunny, offshore breeze, but flat conditions, find something else to do.
WIND: W at 19kph. WATER TEMP: 16 degrees.
SWELL: SE 1-2 metres at 8 seconds.
FORECAST: Fine. Lengthy sunny periods. Light to moderate southwest to southeast winds.
MAX AIR TEMP TODAY: 16-19 degrees.
TIDES: HIGH: 07:01 LOW: 12:43
WINDSURFERS: OK for all riders.
BOAT DIVING: Good sea conditions outside, vis around 10m+ on the TUGGERAH and Kelloe, 10m+ at Barons Hut, thanks to www.seatamerdive.com Sydney Scuba Diving Boat Charter and Ian Griffiths “Griffiti”.
SHORE DIVING: 5+ metres vis at Oak Park. 4 metres at Shiprock.
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Narrabeen Rpt

Next season’s parking stickers are starting to appear, so the swap is on again, but I DON’T NEED ANY MORE WARRINGAH STICKERS. Works like this – if you have a spare you want to swap, drop an email to stickerswap@hotmail.com with what you want/have in the subject line, i.e. “Have Pittwater, Want Manly”. If you want to buy a sticker, don’t contact me. Contact the relevant council, or post something in the Realsurf forum – and there isn’t really much in the way of waves today

C C

Fine, clear and mild on the Central Coast this Friday morning.  The swell is smooth and smallish at 1 – 2 feet from the southeast.  There is a light west southwest breeze forecast to go southeast later.  High tide 0700 and low tide around 1245.  Local barometer 1019 hpa, 95% humidity, 9 degrees C.  Have a great weekend!

Showers and cool

Dee Why looking somewhat less than inspiring.

Hello Friends,

Showery with partly cloudy breaks this morning along the Sydney coastline. From the look of the combined buoy data, our region is doing about as well as anywhere in NSW. And sad to say, that means it must be pretty ordinary elsewhere because our settings are pretty marginal.

There were a couple dedicated bods in the water when I snapped a pic of Dee Why a little before 0800. The MHL data shows around 2 metres of 7 sec south windswell flapping weakly into our region. But it’s smaller and weaker than at all the other buoys.

It looks as though spring has arrived with its onshores and generally weak little windswell conditions. I can’t see much of anything hopeful for us on the forecast models for the near term. Out toward the middle of next week there are some more interesting developments showing in the data. The super computers are currently spitting out numbers that show a broad area of large swell heights right across the Tasman mid next week. At the same time, they’re also showing a big zone of easterly fetch forming up to the NE of New Zealand which then spreads toward our east coast from about Coffs north.

All very interesting…

Go well!

TG’s forecast

Surf forecast issued Thursday 28 August 2008: 5 day outlook for Sydney:

For the weekend…

Fine weather - small surf .

Friday: in the 1-2 metre rnage at dead South places.

Saturday: about 1 metre South.

Sunday: about 1 metre North east.

Monday: less than 1 metre, tending to flat.

Tuesday: pretty flat.

Water temp is around 15-16.

Weather from the Bureau:

Forecast for Thursday evening
A shower or two, chiefly near the coast. Moderate south to southeast winds, fresh along the coast.
Precis: Shower or two.

Forecast for Friday
A shower or two, more likely near the coast, clearing in the evening. Sunny periods. Light to moderate southwest to southeast winds.
Precis: Shower or two.

City:         Min:   9 Max:  18   Parramatta: Min:   7 Max:  18
Terrey Hills: Min:   7 Max:  16   Penrith:    Min:   5 Max:  19
Liverpool:    Min:   5 Max:  18   Richmond:   Min:   3 Max:  18

UV Alert: 10:20 am to 1:40 pm, UV Index predicted to reach 4 [Moderate]

Saturday Fine.

City:          Min:    9  Max:   20
West:          Min:    2  Max:   21

Sunday Cloudy. Showers developing.

City:          Min:   13  Max:   19
West:          Min:    9  Max:   19

Monday Becoming fine.

City:          Min:   11  Max:   18
West:          Min:    6  Max:   19

Tuesday Fine.

City:          Min:   11  Max:   18
West:          Min:    6  Max:   18

Wednesday Chance shower

City:          Min:    9  Max:   17
West:          Min:    3  Max:   17

Thursday Chance shower.

City:          Min:   10  Max:   17
West:          Min:    4  Max:   18

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