Hello Friends,
At about midday yesterday, Huey started turning down the juice very quickly. It went from around two metres at 11 seconds to a metre at 6 seconds this morning. But that’s what you get when the wind blows hard offshore like it has been overnight.
The latest forecast is for the SW wind to be going pretty strongly for the rest of the day. However, from around noon it is supposed to weaken while at the same time we should see a new pulse of south energy filling in. Hard as it is to believe looking at the situation now, the forecast says we could see solidly overhead sets by close of play today.
Yours truly will be keeping an eye on it and at this stage I plan to do an update around midday if anything worthy has started to show. The Eden buoy started going up last night and Batemans Bay has jumped close to a metre in the last 8 hours, but the average period is only 7 seconds.
Have yourself a good one!
Sydney Coastal Waters, Broken Bay to Port Hacking and 60nm seawards:
Gale warning
Thursday until midnight: Wind: West to southwesterly 30 to 35 knots becoming southwesterly 20 to 30 knots around midday then decreasing to 20 to 25 knots by early evening. Winds west to southwesterly 15 to 20 knots later in the evening.Sea: Up to 4 metres decreasing to 3 metres during the afternoon then decreasing to 2 metres by early evening.Swell: South to southeasterly around 2 metres increasing southerly around 2.5 metres. Dangerous surf conditions developing in the afternoon. Swell breaking dangerously, close inshore.
Friday: Wind: West to southwesterly 15 to 20 knots.Sea: Up to 4 metres decreasing to 3 metres during the afternoon then decreasing to 2 metres by early evening.Swell: Southerly 1.5 to 3 metres.
Saturday: Wind: Southwesterly 15 to 20 knots tending south to southwesterly 20 to 25 knots during the morning then decreasing to 15 to 20 knots during the evening.
