Another day gets started at Dee Why.

Hello Friends,

What a delightful morning. Wind hasn’t let up and it was buffeting the old crows nest when I climbed aloft to grab a snap of the situation down at Dee Why. At least the rain’s backed off for the time being. One bit of good news is that the MHL Sydney buoy seems to be operating again. It was showing an average of 3 metres of east swell at around 8 seconds apart. The seas on top of the swell are pushing up into the 6 metre range though. Wouldn’t want to be out in the Tasman this morning.

Winds inshore this morning were out of the ESE at 20-30 kts – which was close to the Bureau’s call for the day. Not that it matters too much, because I don’t think there’d be too many people getting in the water this morning, or indeed today.

As you can see from the Bureau’s call below, we’re going to have these unfriendly conditions for a few days yet. But we’re not likely to cop anything like the hammering currently being experienced up along the far north coast of NSW.

The swell forecast models are still calling for the energy levels to increase steadily and to peak at around 5 metres with a period of about 12 sec on Saturday. If that’s too small for ya, you’d probably like the north coast where the call is for a Hawaiian style 6-7 metres at 11-12 sec over the next couple days. Hope you like wind though because it’s easterly 30-45 kts at Cape Byron as I write this – and they’ve had 100mm of rain in the last 24 hours.

I’ll try to take another look at the overall situation for you later today – schedule permitting. In the meantime, allow me to wish you a top old day and great good fortune in your endeavours.

From the Bureau

Sydney Coastal Waters, Broken Bay to Port Hacking and 60nm seawards:
Strong wind warning.
Thursday until midnight: Wind: E/SE 25/33 knots.Sea: 2.5 to 3.5 metres.Swell: NE 2 to 3 metres.
Friday: Wind: E 25/33 knots. Sea: 2.5 to 3.5 metres.Swell: NE 3 to 3.5 metres. Dangerous surf.
Saturday: Wind: E 15/25 knots.

Moving sand?