TG’s forecast

Surf forecast issued Friday 23 January 2009: Seven day outlook for Sydney:

Changeable weather…changeable surf.

Saturday: small, but who cares – it’ll be hot so you’ll want to get wet. S change later…

Sunday: in the 1-2 metre range at places that like dead South swell.

Monday: back to small – about 1 metre or less South East.

Tuesday: about 1 metre East.

Wednesday: 1 metre or less East.

Thursday: around 1 metre or less North East.

Friday: about 1 metre North East.

Water temp’s around 22.

Happy Australia Day!

Wetter von the Bureau:

Forecast for Friday evening
A shower or two and the chance of a thunderstorm. Moderate to fresh east to northeast winds.
Precis: Shower or two, chance thunderstorm.

Forecast for Saturday
A few showers developing later in the afternoon or evening. Chance afternoon thunderstorm. Light to moderate west to northwest winds, ahead of a gusty, cooler southerly change in the afternoon. Coastal seabreezes ahead of the change.
Precis: A few showers developing, chance thunderstorm.
Fire danger: Very High

City: Min: 24 Max: 35 Parramatta: Min: 23 Max: 39
Terrey Hills: Min: 22 Max: 36 Penrith: Min: 23 Max: 40
Liverpool: Min: 22 Max: 39 Richmond: Min: 22 Max: 38

UV Alert: 9:10 am to 5:10 pm, UV Index predicted to reach 11 [Extreme]

Sunday Shower or two, chiefly morning.

City: Min: 21 Max: 25
West: Min: 17 Max: 29

Monday Slight chance shower/thunderstorm.

City: Min: 21 Max: 27
West: Min: 17 Max: 33

Tuesday Shower or two.

City: Min: 20 Max: 25
West: Min: 17 Max: 29

Wednesday Mostly fine.

City: Min: 21 Max: 27
West: Min: 16 Max: 34

Thursday Fine.

City: Min: 21 Max: 27
West: Min: 16 Max: 35

Friday Fine.

City: Min: 20 Max: 29
West: Min: 16 Max: 36

Sydney Coastal Waters, Broken Bay to Port Hacking and 60nm seawards:
Strong wind warning
Friday until midnight: Wind: E/NE 10/15 knots, freshening to 15/20 knots later. Sea: rising 1 to 2 metres. Swell: NE 1 to 1.5 metres. Isolated thunderstorms.
Saturday: Wind: N/NW 10/15 knots turning N/NE ahead of a late afternoonS/SE change 20/30 knots. Sea: 1 to 2 metres rising 2 to 3 metres with the change.Swell: NE 1 to 1.5 metres. Isolated thunderstorms.
Sunday Outlook: Wind: SE/NE 10/15 knots.
Monday Outlook: Wind: NE 10/20 knots ahead of S/SE change 15/25 knots.

Dee Why: Barrelling.

Hard to imagine, but even smaller than yesterday.

2009 ASP Top 45 Set – Irons’ Brothers Retire

Nine-time ASP World Champion Kelly Slater (USA), 36, enters the 2009 ASP World Tour as the man to beat, with the opportunity to attain an unprecedented 10th ASP World Title.

Coolangatta, Aus – The 2009 ASP World Tour is set to commence in just over a month, and the ASP Top 45 is looking set and shaping up to be one of the most explosive the world has ever seen.

Nine-times ASP World Champion Kelly Slater (USA), 36, will be back to hunt down ASP World Title No. 10, but standing in his way will be the best of the best.

Bede Durbidge (AUS), 25, and fellow top seeds Taj Burrow (AUS), 30, Joel Parkinson (AUS), 27, and C.J. Hobgood (USA), 29, will lead the rest of the ASP Top 45 in their respective bids to put a stop to the Slater juggernaut.

The official withdrawals of the Irons brothers and the acceptance of replacement surfers are in place, and the 2009 ASP Top 45 are finally locked in.

Roy Powers (HAW), 27, will be replacing Bruce Irons (HAW), 29, who finished No. 20 on last season’s ASP World Tour but will be retiring from full-time competition in 2009. Despite the withdrawal from the Dream Tour, Irons will pursue wildcard entries into select events.

Michael Campbell (AUS), 34, former ASP World No. 2, will replace former three-time ASP World Champion Andy Irons (HAW), 30, on the 2009 ASP World Tour. Irons the elder will be taking 2009 to recuperate and has been awarded the ASP Wildcard for the 2010 ASP World Tour.

“Andy Irons requested and was granted an ASP Tour wildcard for 2010,” Wayne “Rabbit” Bartholomew, ASP President, said. “Andy cited personal reasons for not participating in the full tour in 2009, however he may participate in certain pet events as an event wildcard. All stakeholders, being the surfers, the Events Council and ASP Management, were supportive of Andy’s request, and the ASP Board of Directors ratified this arrangement officially.”

“Andy will be sorely missed in 2009 and we look forward to him contending again from 2010,” Bartholomew said. “Each year, three tour wildcards are issued, they are for injury, they are sometimes granted to next in line WQS and they are also granted to former ASP World Champions or someone held in high esteem.”

This year’s ASP Top 45 will see the addition of eight new faces in rookies Nathaniel Curran (USA), 24, Michel Bourez (PYF), 23, Nic Muscroft (AUS), 26, Kekoa Bacalso (HAW), 23, Tim Boal (FRA), 25, Dustin Barca (HAW), 26, Drew Courtney (AUS), 29, and Marlon Lipke (DEU), 24. Over 10 separate surfing nations will be represented in 2009, making this season’s ASP World Tour one of the most diverse on record

Replacements for the 2009 ASP World Tour will be Jay Thompson (AUS), 25, Patrick Gudauskas (USA), 23, Ben Bourgeois (USA), 28, and Yadin Nicol (AUS), 23, respectively.

Comprehensive athlete profiles for the ASP Top 45 are now available via www.aspworldtour.com

The Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast will kickstart the 2009 ASP World Tour at Snapper Rocks on Australia’s Gold Coast. The waiting period for the Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast runs from February 28 through March 11, 2009.

For more information, log onto www.aspworldtour.com

2009 ASP World Tour Schedule:

Stop No. 1: Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast (Feb. 28 – Mar. 11, 2009)

Stop No. 2: Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach (Apr. 7 – 19, 2009)

Stop No. 3: Billabong Pro Teahupoo (May 9 – 20, 2009)

Stop No. 4: Hang Loose Santa Catarina Pro (Jun. 27 – Jly. 5, 2009)

Stop No. 5: Billabong Pro Jeffreys Bay (Jly. 9 – 19, 2009)

Stop No. 6: Hurley Pro Lower Trestles (Sept. 11 – 20, 2009)

Stop No. 7: Quiksilver Pro France (Sept. 23 – Oct. 4, 2009)

Stop No. 8: Billabong Pro Mundaka (Oct. 5 – 17, 2009)

Stop No. 9: Rip Curl Pro Search ‘Somewhere’ (Oct. 19 – 28, 2009)

Stop No. 10: Billabong Pipeline Masters (Dec. 8 – 20, 2009)

Early morning serenity (DYSH)

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Hello

It really doesn’t matter that this photo is so blury, cause the waves weren’t really breaking this morning, should be worth a look during the day when the tide is lower!

Flat as a Tracks magazine.

No surf but this. “Skim board report”. Bronte and Tama too deep. Bondi has a good long and ankle deep shore line in the middle. Maccas if you have a skim board made by Hummer.

Narrabeen Rpt

LOCAL SIGHTING OF ENDANGERED SPECIES, Narrabeen 7am 23.1.9. A man, apparently standing upon & riding a surfboard, has been photographed at Narrabeen Bch this morning. The NPWS are keen to speak to the man, since they claim this activity has not been conducted at any Sydney beach for over a month. An EPA spokersperson said the prolonged flat spell was threatening local surfers’ natural habitat, and consequently many had left the Sydney area in search of sustenance. PB from Realsurf was heard to comment “That’s not a wave. That’s a joke”

C C

Fine, dry and warm on the Central Coast this Friday morning.  The swell is smooth, weak and small at 1 – 2 feet from the east northeast.  There is a very light northwest breeze forecast to go northeast and strengthen later with a hot day.  High tide 0715 and low tide around 1410.  Local barometer 1004 hpa, 92% humidity, 21 degrees C.  Have a good (Australia Day) weekend.