Hello Friends,
This morning starts out calm and small. But the wind is set to pick up steadily and build into the 25-35 kt range by this afternoon as a ‘vigorous front’ (to use the Bureau’s expression) heads our way. So, it’s going to be something of a replay of Saturday’s toasty conditions, but maybe not quite as warm.
Surf settings continue to bump along at flat to just barely surfable. There were a couple folk on standup paddleboards motoring into knee to waist high things at Dee Why beach. I didn’t see anyone else in the water, but I suppose there might possibly be a little peak up toward the pole. To the extent that it can be described as a swell, what we have is coming from the east at about 6 seconds and is only about a metre high out at sea where the MHL buoy bobs on the less than bounding main.
As we’ve been saying for the last few days, it does look as though we might get a brief south pulse late tomorrow and into Weds morning. But the models continue to say it will only be around the 1.5 metre mark and coming from the south at a marginal 8 seconds apart. Thereafter it seems that Spring will prevail with generally tiny NE windswell about the only thing on our menu through next weekend.
There continues to be a steady supply of intense low pressure systems in the far southern ocean, but the models show them all being bumped away from Sydney’s swell window by a succession of highs. If you want waves, you need to get yourself some decent rubber and head to the exposed coastlines of western Vic, SA and Tas – or jump across the ditch to Kiwi land where their west coasts are going pretty well. So it goes, I guess.
Anyway, it’ll all come good again, so go forth and have yourself a top old day!
