0845: under the brow of Curl Curl headland, a crew strokes southward.

Hello Friends,

Much joy along the Northern Beaches last night following the record-breaking result in the footy. Pretty quiet this morning though. Lots of sore heads maybe? If you’re looking at this through bleary eyes (whatever the cause), I’m here to tell you that there’s no reason to feel bad about getting up late where Dee Why’s concerned. The period may have bumped up to nearly 9 seconds, and the direction has gone more to the SSE overnight, but the average height at sea is not quite a metre according to the latest data from the Sydney MHL buoy.

Although the wind is light as I write this, a strong southerly change is coming our way. Here’s the Bureau’s call for our region:

Wind: NW/SW increasing to 15/20 knots, ahead of a S/SW change 20/30 knots in the evening.Sea: 1.5 to 2 metres rising to 2 to 3 metres after the change.Swell: NE about 1 metre. Chance morning thunderstorm and near the change.

Obviously a bit of a difference there on the swell direction call vs what the buoy is showing.

No obvious sign of swell on the buoy data from the south of us. In fact, no real sign of the change on the latest set of weather observations. If anything, it’s mainly westerly along the south coast.

I’d say the chances of a reasonable wave are fairly minimal.

A tardy welcome home call out to Leo our Cronulla stalwart and Matt from the Central Coast. Sounds like the trek went pretty well Matt!

Tuesday might see a shortish period south pulse develop, but the Bureau is also expecting the Sydney region to get onshores from the SE-NE at 8-13 knots. Wednesday looks like being smaller again, but Thursday morning still looks pretty promising, with many of the models showing quite long period south swell (12-16 sec) through the daylight hours for the Sydney region. Sounds like it might be a nice day too. The Bureau says fine and 22 with E-NE 10-20 kts.

Go well with your day!