Hello Friends,

As PB’s already noted this morning, the SE’ly that blew away the blast furnace heat of yesterday has pushed up a bit of junky but okay size windswell. Dee Why was showing the odd shoulder high set up the beach where the wind was into it. Quite an improvement in size over yesterday, but it will require a certain amount of keeness to get you out there because the quality is pretty underwhelming.

Outlook for the rest of the day is so-so. The SE wind is set to pick up a little this morning and then during the afternoon it should weaken and swing more to the east. Lovely. Meanwhile, as the wind drops, the windswell it’s delivered will also start to fade.

By tomorrow we could be back to smaller conditions as the swell continues to fade overnight from its present 2 metres at 8 seconds, to maybe a metre at 7 seconds. So, Monday may not be flat, but with 10-15kts of ESE wind, I don’t reckon it’ll be particularly appealing.

Outlook for the coming week is generally fairly quiet along the east coast. As we head up to next weekend, SE Qld could start to see some improvement in size (no doubt with increasing wind), but the models don’t show the easterly swell getting very far down into NSW.

Have yourself a top old Sunday!

Hello Friends,

0645: a few folks cooling off in the tiny waves.

Back on deck in Sydney once more and what do we have on the surf menu? Not a great deal where Dee Why’s concerned, that’s for sure. Seems as though it didn’t really cool off to any meaningful extent overnight, and this morning the sky was more cloud than blue. About the best thing you can say about the surf conditions is that they won’t be keeping you out of the water for safety reasons.

As has been the case for the last week, the windswell is out of the ENE at about a metre and only 7 seconds apart. If you found waves someplace yesterday, go back again today and you should have much the same conditions until the change rolls through this afternoon. Here’s the rundown from the Bureau issued a couple hours ago:

Wind: N/NW 15/20 knots, turning N/NE during the afternoon, ahead of a late S/SE change 25/33 knots. Sea: 1 to 2 metres rising to 2.5 to 3.5 metres with the change. Swell: NE 1 to 1.5 metres. Isolated thunderstorms.

As most Sydneysiders will know, we’re in for 38 or so on the coast today before that change comes in. Tomorrow the high will be around 25 along the beaches and we’re set to have 15-25kts of SE wind thanks to the aforementioned change.

The forecast models indicate that there could possibly be something into the rideable range at semi-protected south corners on Sunday morning. With luck the waves will stick around through the day even as the SE’ly backs off. By Monday though it appears that conditions will be smaller again as we head off into another stretch of marginal looking swell prospects along the NSW coast. There should be a little more energy up in SE Qld in a couple days as a weak blob of easterly windswell looks set to slide in from the Coral Sea. But down here in Sydney we’re unlikely to get much, if anything.

Ah well, it is summer after all.

Have yourself a great day and a top holiday weekend.