Hello Friends,
ARVO UPDATE: went for a splash at Curly this morning and can report you didn’t miss much. Biggest waves were working hard to make waist high and they didn’t have a great deal of energy. Still, it was a beautiful morning and good to be in the water, so I’m not complaining. Seemed to be a fair amount of algae in the water, but no sign of bluebottles. Water temp felt cool, but it wasn’t an issue really. By midday the expected NE’r had come up and the conditions were not helped much where we were surfin’ (toward the south end). I didn’t get any interesting pics really, but here’s one all the same….
Earlier I wrote:
Quite a difference from yesterday eh? Wind’s now lightly offshore and there’s a weak but catchable south swell in the waist high range showing at Dee Why. It doesn’t look terribly special, but at least it’s something. And, from the look of the models, today’s about as big as it’ll get for at least the next week. It’s spring. What can you say?
A close examination of the latest run of the models suggests that there is a long period but small pulse in store for us around Friday. It doesn’t look like lasting too long and it could mostly hit at night, but there might be something into the chest high range at spots best tuned to the period/direction combo (which currently looks like being mainly from the SE at around 15 seconds, but only 0.5 m).
Fingers crossed on that one!
Go well with your day!
Weather Situation
A high pressure system near the Bight is slowly moving east extending a ridge to the northern Tasman Sea.The high is expected to move over the western Tasman Sea on Wednesday and then to move slowly towards New Zealand. Another southerly change is expected to develop along the coast during Saturday.
Forecast for Wednesday until midnight
Winds: Light winds tending northeasterly up to 10 knots around midday then increasing to up to 15 knots during the afternoon. Seas: Below 1 metre. Swell: Southerly 1.5 metres.
Forecast for Thursday
Winds: North to northeasterly 5 to 15 knots. Seas: Below 1 metre increasing to 1 to 1.5 metres later in the evening. Swell: Southerly about 1 metre.
Forecast for Friday
Winds: North to northeasterly 10 to 15 knots. Seas: Below 1 metre. Swell: Southeasterly 1 metre tending easterly about 1 metre from midday.
