Hello Friends,
Pretty bad case of morning sickness along the northern beaches as we get started. I daresay it’s the same for you folk along the eastern suburb shores too. As the pictures show, the surface conditions are very choppy and junky thanks to 15-20 kts of ESE wind.
Swell is around the 1.5 metre range, coming from the SE and about 8 seconds apart on average. So there are the makings of waist to chest high sets and as the wind swings to the NE this afternoon, there could be an improvement in the quality at the north ends.
Several riffs on the WAM data are projecting a swell increase toward this afternoon and in particular an increase in the average period. However, there’s nothing obvious showing on the actual buoy data from along the NSW coast, so I’m not overly confident that we’ll see any dramatic change to the basic swell settings today. Be fantastic if I’m proved wrong though.
Swell energy levels look like gradually fading over the weekend, but with luck we won’t drop into the completely, unsurfably flat range.
On other matters, I’d encourage all fans of our ever sunny Byron reporter team Ben and Yoko to check out their site. They lost a bunch of expensive camera gear to thieves and are putting out the word for some help to recover. You couldn’t meet a sunnier, more positive couple, so I hope all the positive energy they’ve put out will come back to them in the most practical way.
Tides: H @1210, L @1820
Sydney Coastal Waters, Broken Bay to Port Hacking and 60nm seawards:
Friday until midnight: Wind: E/SE 10/15 knots tending E/NE 10/15 knots in the afternoon.Sea: about 1 metre.Swell: SE 2 to 3 metres.
Saturday: Wind: NE 10/15 knots, increasing to N/NE 15/20 knots later.Sea: 1 to 1.5 metres.Swell: E/SE 1.5 to 2 metres.
Sunday: Wind: N/NE freshening to 15/25 knots.
