Hello Friends,

Was down at Dee Why right on dark for a picture shoot (might get a snap of me in the Sunday Tele), so I had plenty of time to watch the goings on at the peak just north of the SLSC. The 8 second period SE windswell may be a couple metres out at sea, but at the beach it was about waist to chest high with the odd bigger one. They looked very soft and weak sadly, but the wind wasn’t doing much and there were a small number of surfers getting amongst it.

Friday’s expected to have light onshores in the morning, picking up a touch toward lunch, Tide’ll be coming off a high at 0807 and heading toward a low at around 1340. It’s expected to be grey and cloudy with the odd shower too.

Have a good Thursday and catchya tomorrow morning!

Hello Friends,

It’s ordinary, no, it’s really ordinary this morning in Sydney. Gloomy skies threatening showers, a sullen grey and choppy sea flecked with white horses and unceasing SE wind. “Waves” are about waist to chest high, but there were no takers at Curly or the Dee Why to Longy stretch when I checked at around 0745. I think you could safely cross surfing off the to do list for today.

Sadly, it looks as though you’ll probably need the red marker for the next couple days because the forecasts are calling for minimal change until about Saturday when there should be a return to sunnier skies and offshores. We’re not likely to see impressive size, but with luck we could have chest high sets as the weekend dawns.

Latest long range forecast is showing not much in the way of size improvement for the next week.

Have yourself a good day!

Weather Situation
A strong high pressure system to the east of Tasmania extends a ridge towards Queensland. The high will move to NZ by Saturday, maintaining the ridge over NSW throughout the week.
Forecast for Wednesday until midnight
Winds
East to southeasterly 15 to 20 knots becoming easterly 10 to 15 knots later in the evening.
Seas
1 to 1.5 metres.
Swell
Southerly about 1.5 metres.
Thursday 30 June
Winds
East to southeasterly 10 to 15 knots.
Seas
Below 1 metre.
Swell
Southeasterly 1 metre.
Friday 1 July
Winds
Easterly 5 to 10 knots tending southeasterly up to 15 knots during the morning then decreasing to 10 knots during the afternoon.
Seas
Below 1 metre.
Swell
Southeasterly 1 metre.

Hello Friends,

Hello Friends,

Swell has perked up quite a bit since yesterday morning – but that just means it’s into the waist high range. For early risers that turned out to be a good thing because the wind was still offshore. However, as I write this, it looks as though the wind is swinging to the south down the coast at Wattamolla. The Bureau says it’ll be S to SE soon and then it’ll stay that way through to dark. In fact, the SE regime looks set to continue through to Thursday.

According to the wave forecast models the swell will be marginal across the same period with wind swell generally out of the SE at around a metre with sub-10 second periods. Some of the riffs on the basic forecast data are showing an improvement to the wind pattern on Saturday along with a bit more size in the swell. So, weekend warriors, you could be in luck!

Go well with your day and get up to some good on the way through!

Weather Situation
A high pressure system over New South Wales is moving slowly southeast and will move over the southern Tasman Sea during the week, maintaining a ridge over New South Wales and mostly east to southeast winds along the coast.
Forecast for Tuesday until midnight
Winds
South to southeasterly 10 to 15 knots tending east to southeasterly later in the evening.
Seas
Below 1 metre.
Swell
Southerly about 1 metre.
Wednesday 29 June
Winds
Southeasterly 15 to 20 knots decreasing to 10 to 15 knots in the early morning then increasing to 15 to 20 knots during the afternoon.
Seas
Up to 1.5 metres.
Swell
Southeasterly 1 metre.
Thursday 30 June
Winds
Easterly 10 to 15 knots.
Seas
Below 1 metre.
Swell
Southeasterly 1 metre.

Hello Friends,

Were it not for the occasional 11 second period set there would be nothing at all showing along the Dee Why to Longy stretch this morning. I saw a tiny little set wave with maybe a 0.3 metre face come in while I took a snap this morning. But no one’s in the water, so I’d guess that was a pretty infrequent event.

Had to run an errand this morning and took the opportunity to have a look at Curl Curl. You will be totally unthunderstruck to hear that it was just as hopelessly, unsurfably tiny as Dee Why.

The wind was offshore for the early this morning, but it’s expected to pick up and swing more around to the S and SW by about lunchtime. As that happens, the Bureau’s swell model shows the average sea + swell height bumping up. My guess is that this will be more because of the wind chop than any increase in underlying swell energy. Other swell models show this uptick as well, but many also predict the period (I wish the Bureau would do this too) will only be around 6 seconds. That means weak, gutless, tiny windswell at best. Tomorrow morning could see a little more size, but the wind forecast is S – SE, so quality is likely to be marginal at best.

As of this morning, the models are saying the weak swell energy levels are likely to peak on Thursday. But they’ll be doing so in what looks to be an onshore wind regime. Sigh. Some of the longer range guesstimates are currently showing a more easterly pulse with offshores for Saturday.

Weather Situation
A cold front is crossing the southern Tasman Sea bringing a southerly change along New South Wales Coast. Behind the front a high pressure system will move towards the Bass Strait extending a ridge to the northeastern Tasman Sea.
Forecast for Monday until midnight
Winds
West to southwesterly 10 to 15 knots tending south to southwesterly 15 to 20 knots around midday.
Seas
1 to 1.5 metres.
Swell
Southerly 0.5 metres.
Tuesday 28 June
Winds
South to southeasterly 10 to 20 knots.
Seas
Up to 1.5 metres.
Swell
Southerly about 1 metre.
Wednesday 29 June
Winds
Southeasterly 10 to 15 knots.
Seas
Below 1 metre.
Swell
Southeasterly 1 metre.