Hello Friends,
Another mostly cloudy and wintry morning for the first of July. But we have a little waist to chest high SE wind swell making itself felt in Sydney. Where Dee Why’s concerned that means the very occasional set wave turning up at the point with more consistent activity north along the beach. Wind was lightly offshore to begin with, but the Bureau says it should be around to the south to SE at 5-15 kts later. It should be mostly cloudy with the odd brief and isolated shower.
The Bureau’s swell model is showing the energy levels weakening a little as the day goes along. Their projections call for it to kinda hang around the metre mark for tomorrow and Sunday – with light wind from the westerly quarters. Other models are calling for a little perk late Saturday into Sunday. So, the good news is that we should have something to mess around with over the next couple days.
Beyond that, well I’d love to know what the Goat thinks because from this remove it looks as though we could have another fairly intense east coast low spinning up late next week. One of the interpretations is showing peak swell heights into the 4 metre range… that’s a long way out and as we all know, these predictions often get scaled back sharply as we get closer to the day. Still, I don’t think we mind having the prospect of big surf dancing tantalizing on the distant horizon…
Have yourself a top old Friday!
TIDES: H @0810 L @1340
Weather Situation
A strong high pressure system over the southwestern Tasman Sea is very slowly moving towards New Zealand maintaining a ridge to New South Wales. A cold front will affect NSW early next week.
Forecast for Friday until midnight
Winds
South to southeasterly 5 to 15 knots.
Seas
Below 1 metre.
Swell
Southeasterly 1.5 metres.
Saturday 2 July
Winds
Southeast to southwesterly 5 to 10 knots tending northerly up to 10 knots by early evening.
Seas
Below 1 metre.
Swell
Southeasterly 1 metre.
Sunday 3 July
Winds
North to northwesterly 10 to 15 knots increasing to 15 to 20 knots during the afternoon.
Seas
Below 1 metre increasing to 1 to 1.5 metres during the afternoon.
Swell
Easterly 1 metre.
