Hello Friends
This morning’s errands found me with time to have a closer look at Dee Why and Curly. Sadly, I have to reinforce what’s already been noted today: it’s dire. There were a fair number of folks hunting wavelets at Curly, but I had to wait quite awhile before I was able to get a shot of someone actually up and riding. If you score anything above waist high, consider yourself lucky. Wave energy continues to be quite feeble, so you really need to be on the fish or something in the mini-mal range. The light onshore breeze and high tide weren’t helping an awful lot, but given how low tide has been shutdown city lately, the mid-tide will probably be your best hope.
Looks like the NE’r will kick in pretty strongly tomorrow and Thursday, so there should be summer style afternoon wind junk and maybe, possibly something reasonable for early risers on Thr and Fri.
Go well
Earlier I wrote
Just quickly ’cause I have to run an errand, there are very small and weak little junk burger things flopping weakly over at Dee Why beach. Wind is light and tide is high at about 0900 before dropping to the low at about 1545. Swell is out of the SSE at a metre and is currently running at about 9 seconds apart. I shall try to update again later!
Weather Situation
A high pressure system over the northern Tasman Sea is weakening, but is being replaced by another high, centred to the southeast of Tasmania. This high is strengthening while a trough over South Australia draws slowly closer. This pattern will see northeasterly winds increasing along much of the New South Wales coast before the trough brings a southerly change towards the end of the week.Forecast for Tuesday until midnight
Winds: East to northeasterly 10 to 15 knots becoming northeasterly 15 to 20 knots by early evening. Seas: Below 1 metre increasing to 1 to 1.5 metres by early evening. Swell: Easterly less than 1 metre.Forecast for Wednesday
Winds: Northeasterly 15 to 20 knots increasing to 20 to 30 knots during the afternoon. Seas: 1.5 to 2 metres increasing to 2 to 3 metres by early evening. Swell: Southeasterly 1 to 2 metres.Forecast for Thursday
Winds: Northeasterly 25 to 30 knots. Seas: Up to 3 metres. Swell: Easterly 2 metres. Isolated thunderstorms from midday.
