Hello Friends,
Some soft looking, smallish (waist to chest high) waves were lapping into Dee Why this morning just ahead of the high tide at 0940. Winds were light and out of the west, so conditions were smooth under the pearly skies. Swell is a couple metres at sea and is out of the SSE at about 10 seconds apart.
Given those numbers, I was surprised that it wasn’t a bit bigger. But maybe I just didn’t watch for long enough… the touch of east should help to open up a few more surf options around the place too.
Outlook remains for it to drop to flatness in the next 48 hours but then for a whopper SE pulse to fill in from late Wednesday. Some of the predictions are still calling for 4-5 metres of 10 sec swell Thr-Fri. The Bureau says the wind outlook is southerly for that period and the weather could be showery/cloudy.
Have yourself a top old Sunday!
Weather Situation
A high pressure system over the central Tasman Sea is slowly moving towards New Zealand, maintaining a ridge to the New South Wales north coast. A low pressure trough will bring a southwesterly change along the coast during Monday. On Tuesday a low is expected to develop over the western Tasman Sea as the trough deepens.
Forecast for Sunday until midnight
Winds
Northeast to northwesterly 10 to 15 knots.
Seas
Up to 1.5 metres decreasing to below 1 metre by early evening.
Swell
Southerly about 1.5 metres.
Monday 18 July
Winds
North to northwesterly 10 to 15 knots tending northwest to southwesterly around midday.
Seas
Below 1 metre.
Swell
Southeasterly 1 metre tending easterly about 1 metre from the late morning.
Tuesday 19 July
Winds
West to southwesterly 10 to 15 knots becoming southwesterly 15 to 20 knots during the afternoon then increasing to 20 to 25 knots during the evening.
Seas
Below 1 metre increasing to 1 to 1.5 metres during the afternoon then increasing to 1.5 to 2 metres during the evening.
Swell
Easterly 1 metre.
