Hello Friends,

The metre or so of 8 sec period wind swell has moved around to the east and was producing knee to waist high grovelers for Christmas morning fugitives at Dee Why. The wind was light still at around 1000, so surface conditions were reasonably smooth. My guess is that it might be a touch bigger at spots that like east.

Wind call is for NE at 15-20 kts this afternoon for the low tide at 1730. Given the primary direction is already from the east, there just might be the odd interesting lump at semi-protected north corners.

We’re due to get a late south change tomorrow, so my guess is that the wind swell will weaken overnight and that Sunday morning will be smaller and weaker than the stuff we have right now.

So go forth and have a top old day and may all be happy and well in your world.

Here’s the word from the Bureau

Weather Situation
A high pressure system is strengthening over the Tasman sea, and will extend a ridge to the New South Wales north coast during Saturday. The high will move towards New Zealand later Saturday before a low pressure trough and associated cold front bring a gusty southerly change to the New South Wales coast during Sunday and Monday. Conditions should ease on Tuesday as the next high moves over the region.

Forecast for Saturday until midnight
Winds: East to northeasterly 5 to 10 knots becoming northeasterly up to 15 knots around midday then tending north to northeasterly 15 to 20 knots during the afternoon. Seas: Below 1 metre increasing to 1 to 1.5 metres by early evening then increasing to 1.5 to 2 metres later in the evening. Swell: Southerly 1.5 metres.

Forecast for Sunday
Winds: Northeast to northwesterly 10 to 20 knots tending east to northeasterly 10 to 15 knots during the afternoon ahead of a southerly change 20 to 30 knots in the evening. Seas: 1.5 to 2 metres. Swell: Southeasterly 1.5 metres tending easterly 1 metre from the morning. Isolated thunderstorms in the afternoon and evening.

Forecast for Monday
Winds: Southerly 15 to 25 knots, reaching 30 knots at times, decreasing to 10 to 20 knots during the morning then increasing to up to 30 knots during the afternoon. Seas: Up to 3 metres decreasing to 2 metres during the morning then increasing to 3 metres during the evening. Swell: Easterly 1.5 metres tending southeasterly during the evening. Isolated thunderstorms early in the morning, mainly offshore.

Hello Friends,

Grey skies, 10 kts of SE wind and a couple metres of short period SE wind swell do not the prettiest of pictures make. Unless you are super, ultra, extra keen, I’d say attending to various holiday chores and associated hilarity would be the plan for today. Yes, if you really want to, you can find the odd grovel pretty much anywhere. As the pics show, it is extremely messy, weak and disorganised along the Northy to Collaroy stretch and just as ordinary from Longy to Dee Why.

Outlook for the rest of the day is for a steady supply of SE junkiness.

At least tomorrow the weather should be a bit nicer and the winds will be around to the north and NE. So, while the swell won’t exactly be pumping, at least it should be less junky and horrid looking for Christmas. It’s set to be pretty small though, so don’t get the hopes up too much.

Boxing Day should start out okay, but then get stormy and showery later as winds go around from NW to SW. With luck, we’ll have a little easterly wind swell to go with it.

Tide is high at 1000 today and low at 1645. Tomorrow it’ll be 1100 for the high and around 1730 for the high.

Have a top old day!

Weather Situation

A high pressure system will move east of Tasmania during today extending a ridge to New South Wales north coast. The high will rapidly move towards New Zealand during Saturday and a cold front is expected to bring a southerly change along the coast on Sunday.

Forecast for Friday until midnight

Winds: South to southeasterly 15 to 20 knots tending east to southeasterly 10 to 15 knots during the morning. Seas: Up to 1.5 metres. Swell: Southerly 1.5 metres.

Forecast for Saturday

Winds: East to northeasterly 5 to 10 knots tending north to northeasterly during the morning then increasing to up to 15 knots during the afternoon. Seas: Below 1 metre. Swell: Southerly 1.5 metres.

Forecast for Sunday

Winds: Northerly 10 to 20 knots, reaching 25 knots at times, tending north to northwesterly 10 to 15 knots during the morning then tending northerly up to 25 knots during the afternoon. Winds tending south to southwesterly up to 30 knots during the evening. Seas: Up to 2 metres decreasing to below 1 metre during the afternoon. Swell: Southeasterly 1.5 metres tending easterly 1 metre from the morning. Isolated thunderstorms from midday.

Hello Friends,

A little 8s SE swell is providing a few small diversions at spots that like that sort of thing. Nothing too huge because it’s only 1.5m out at sea, but there should be the odd waist high set around the place. Tide’s high at 0915 and low at 1600. But the afternoon sesh will probably be pretty ordinary if the Bureau is right. They say the wind will be out of the south at 20-30 kts by then.

oops radio time, back in a tick with thoughts about the outlook…

Weather Situation
A cold front will move over the southwestern Tasman this morning and a high pressure system south of the Bight will extend a ridge to New South Wales north coast behind the front. By Friday the high will move over the southern Tasman Sea and before moving rapidly towards New Zealand during Saturday. On Sunday another cold front is expected to bring southerly change along the coast.

Forecast for Thursday until midnight
Winds: Northerly 5 to 15 knots tending north to northeasterly up to 10 knots during the morning then tending south to southeasterly up to 25 knots by early evening. Winds tending southerly 20 to 30 knots later in the evening. Seas: Below 1 metre increasing to 1 to 2 metres later in the evening. Swell: Southerly 1 metre.

Forecast for Friday
Winds: Southerly 20 to 30 knots tending south to southeasterly 15 to 20 knots around dawn then tending east to southeasterly up to 15 knots around midday. Winds tending easterly up to 10 knots later in the evening. Seas: 1.5 to 2 metres decreasing to below 1 metre around midday. Swell: Southeasterly about 1.5 metres.

Forecast for Saturday
Winds: Northeasterly 5 to 10 knots tending north to northeasterly up to 15 knots during the afternoon. Seas: Below 1 metre. Swell: Southerly 1.5 metres tending easterly during the evening. The chance of thunderstorms from midday.