"Stay happy and you'll be perfectly fine" - Jack Norris

A morning to sleep in, maybe later

Hello Friends,

A particularly heavy shower rattled down on the roof tiles just after I grabbed the pic at around 0645. Just kinda underlined the yuck factor. The south swell is a couple metres on average and the period is close to 11 seconds. But Dee Why was a grey, undistinguished mess thanks to 20-30 kts of SSE wind. Eminently missable, but there were still a few bods in the water catching the odd messy and burgery little peak. Admittedly I could only watch for a few minutes before having to seek cover, but from where people were sitting in the water, I’d be surprised if the sets were much above shoulder high – if that.

The junky and horrible conditions look like continuing through tomorrow before we retun to partly cloudy and dry with light winds on Monday.  My fingers are crossed for some little waves to be around on Monday morning because if the latest run of the models has any basis in fact, we’re in for a stretch of minorness after that.

Ah well, keep on smilin’, life’s an adventure.

 

 

TIDES: H @0620, L @1230

Weather Situation

A low pressure system over the Southern Tasman Sea is moving slowly towards New Zealand and a high pressure system southeast of the Bight is slowly moving east extending a ridge to the southwestern Tasman Sea. The high is expected to move over the southwestern Tasman Sea during Monday.

Forecast for Saturday until midnight

Winds: South to southeasterly 20 to 30 knots. Seas: 2 to 3 metres. Swell: Southeasterly 2 to 3 metres. The chance of thunderstorms. Swells breaking dangerously close inshore.

Forecast for Sunday

Winds: South to southeasterly 25 to 30 knots decreasing to 20 to 25 knots around dawn then decreasing to 15 to 20 knots around midday. Winds becoming southeasterly 10 to 15 knots by early evening. Seas: 2 to 3 metres decreasing below 1.5 metres during the morning then decreasing to below 1 metre later in the evening. Swell: Southeasterly 1.5 to 3 metres.

Forecast for Monday

Winds: Easterly 5 to 10 knots tending northeast to northwesterly during the morning then tending north to northeasterly up to 15 knots during the afternoon. Seas: Below 1 metre. Swell: Southeasterly about 1.5 metres.