Hello Early Risers,
I’ll be posting my first report of the morning a little before 0730 – just ahead of talking surf with the ever-sunny Mr Simon Marnie on the ABC 702 weekend show. However, I thought I’d take a chance and have a guess at how things will look at first light on Saturday morning…
And I reckon it’ll look dead ordinary.
There is no reason to mistrust the Bureau’s late Friday arvo call for 20-30 kts of SE wind and showers this morning.
There should be some okay size east swell because through the day yesterday – and into the evening – the numbers were going up gradually. It was 2.5 metres or so on average at daybreak on Friday, but by nightfall, the heights were getting very close to the 4 metre mark. Thanks to the wind, the swell + sea heights were getting into the six metre range. Direction is pretty much straight east, so I’m wondering how the Collaroy-Narrabeen stretch will fare when high tide peaks at around midday…
Still, however ya cut it, the chances of finding a wave worth the effort in Sydney (and most of the rest of the coast) have to be on the unlikely side today.
The low looks set to head away from the coast pretty smartly, so I’d expect our swell to roll off steadily and to be back to more typical conditions come Monday.
Fortunately it looks as though the wind might get a touch of SW to it on Sunday, so… who knows… maybe we’ll get lucky…
