Hello Friends,
Fine and mostly sunny all day is the forecast for Sydney. Wind is light and variable now but it will swing around to the NE and build up to a summery 10-15kts. What would be really good is if we could have some swell to go with the conditions. It’s not quite flat, but the conditions are pretty marginal. The MHL Sydney buoy is showing about a metre of SSE 8 sec period windswell. This is pretty close to what we saw yesterday morning, so I reckon my usual advice applies: if you found something there yesterday, check it again today.
Looking at the other buoy reports, it does seem that if you head south of Sydney the swell doesn’t get any bigger, but the period gets up into the 10 second range. If you’re up along the beautiful northern coast, periods are about the same as Sydney, but average heights are around the 2 metre mark.
Checking this morning’s fresh batch of long range forecasts, it looks as though we’re in for more of the same through the weekend (no change there). The south pulse set for early in the new week is still showing on the models, but there are various interpretations – some are estimating it will barely affect us in Sydney while at least one is calling for around 12 hours of 2 metre, 10 sec period south swell. If I had to take a punt, it’d be for the early on Tuesday. Just for fun, here are a couple links to previous reports: if the pessimists are closer to the mark and Tuesday morning sees 2 metres at 8 seconds from the south, it might be like this, or, if the optimists are right and the period’s more like 10 sec, maybe this will be closer to the mark…
Have yourself a top old day!
PS: Do you have any favourite surf blogs? Do you write a surf blog? Why not send me a link and if I dig it too, I’ll give it a mention in my report!
