Hello Friends,

Another day of littleness up and down the coast of NSW. Dee Why was showing nothing substantial this morning under grey skies. The Sydney MHL buoy is detecting barely half a metre of 7 second period SE windswell. There is some 13 sec component in amongst it, but I can’t see any sign of larger stuff.

It’s not looking too promising for any improvement to the wave situation today in the Sydney region. There is some hope for just barely marginal waves tomorrow morning at south swell spots and then maybe an option or two on Saturday if we get some long period stuff as is being predicted for our region by some interpretations of the latest WAM data.

This monring’s WAMs are projecting the aforementioned little uptick on Saturday, followed by a dip on Sunday then another minor upward bump late Monday into Tuesday. But at this stage there doesn’t look like being anything much above the chest to shoulder high range at exposed spots over the coming 4 to 5 days…

Go well folks!

The BoM says:

Weather Situation

A high pressure system over the northern Tasman Sea will move slowly to the east over the next couple of days. A trough and associated southerly change has weakened in the north. A second trough is expected to move along the coast late Thursday and Friday with an increase in the southerly winds associated. A low pressure system is expected to deepen over South Australia on Friday as another high pressure system moves into the southern Tasman Sea. The low should deepen further on Saturday and move southeast towards Tasmania with winds along the NSW coast becoming strong to gale force.
Forecast for Thursday until midnight

Winds: Southerly 5 to 10 knots becoming light during the morning then tending southerly up to 15 knots during the afternoon. Winds increasing to southerly 15 to 20 knots by early evening. Seas: Below 1 metre increasing to 1 to 1.5 metres by early evening. Swell: Southerly about 1 metre. The chance of thunderstorms during this afternoon.
Forecast for Friday

Winds: South to southeasterly 15 to 20 knots tending east to northeasterly during the afternoon. Seas: 1 to 1.5 metres. Swell: Southerly about 1 metre.
Forecast for Saturday

Winds: Northeasterly 20 to 25 knots tending north to northeasterly 25 to 35 knots during the morning. Seas: 1.5 to 2 metres increasing to 2 to 3 metres during the morning then increasing to 4 metres during the afternoon. Swell: Southeasterly about 2 metres tending easterly 1.5 metres during the evening.