Hello Friends,

Trust that you had a fun NYE. I certainly did (thanks Brendon and Wendy) but it did translate into one of the more leisurely starts for me in recent times. As it happens, Huey apparently decided not to make an effort for us this morning either. The overflow parking area down at Dee Why was, well, overflowing by midday.

The MHL buoy off Sydney is showing a touch under a metre of 5 sec peiod ENE chop. I really couldn’t discern any lines as such and nobody was in the water on or with what might be termed serious surf craft. The NE’r is set to accelerate as the afternoon rolls along so by this evening there might possibly be some little wind swell stuff at places that can handle the wind but are still exposed to the swell direction.

But I wouldn’t be too hopeful of anything much above the chest high mark.

And, whatever blows up, it looks as though by tomorrow morning when the wind backs off, that there won’t be much left to play with. A late south change tomorrow might bump things up a touch, but I’m only cautiously hopeful on that one.  Happily, the latest run of the wave prediction models offers some slight hope of a bump upward in the energy levels toward the end of the week as a two metre east-ish pulse develops (we hope!)

Go well with your plans and may the new year be a good one for you and yours.

From the BoM

Strong wind warning for New South Wales waters between Port Macquarie and Gabo Island.

Details of warnings are available on the Bureau’s website www.bom.gov.au, by telephone 1300-659-218* or through some TV and radio broadcasts.

Weather Situation

A high pressure system over the southern Tasman Sea is slowly moving to the east southeast maintain a ridge to New South Wales far north coast. A cold will bring southerly change to the south on Saturday extending to the central coast on Sunday and to north on Monday.

Forecast for Saturday until midnight

Winds: North to northeasterly 15 to 20 knots becoming northeasterly 20 to 30 knots by early evening. Seas: 1 to 1.5 metres increasing to 1.5 to 2 metres by early evening then increasing to 2 to 3 metres later in the evening. Swell: Easterly 1 metre.

Forecast for Sunday

Winds: North to northeasterly 10 to 20 knots, reaching 30 knots at times, ahead of early southerly change 15 to 25 knots. Seas: Up to 3 metres decreasing below 2 metres around dawn. Swell: Easterly 0.5 to 1.5 metres tending northeasterly 1 metre late in the evening. Isolated thunderstorms offshore during the evening.

Forecast for Monday

Winds: Southerly 15 to 20 knots. Seas: 1 to 2 metres. Swell: Easterly 1 metre.

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