Hello Friends,

A late night sees your correspondent wander into the wheelhouse at a leisurely hour this morning. Swell is still out of the SE but maybe a touch bigger out at sea than yesterday. As of 1000 it was a couple metres with an average period of 8 seconds, but also, importantly, with some 10 second component. There was a small crew in attendance at Dee Why point. They were chasing waist to maybe chest high, rather soft looking little waves.

The wind was pretty light when I first checked, but by this afternoon it should be onshore from the east to SE at about 10-15 kts.

Tide is high at 1225, so things should be fat and full until mid-afternoon.

Outlook for the coming week is generally for cloudy skies and onshore wind. A couple of the model interpretations are showing the swell picking up a bit over its present level. While that should mean slightly bigger waves, the dominant component looks as though it’ll be pretty short period. I’m expecting junky and not very good basically.

Have yourself a top old Sunday!

Weather Situation
A low pressure trough over northeastern inland NSW will move slowly westwards today and weaken as a high pressure system moves into the southern Tasman Sea. The high will intensify Monday and extend a ridge to southeast NSW and a trough will deepen off the north coast.
Forecast for Sunday until midnight
Winds
East to southeasterly 10 to 15 knots.
Seas
Below 1 metre.
Swell
Southerly about 1.5 metres.
Weather
The chance of thunderstorms.
Monday 16 January
Winds
Easterly 10 to 15 knots turning northeasterly 15 to 20 knots during the day.
Seas
Below 1 metre increasing to 1 to 1.5 metres later in the evening.
Swell
Southerly about 1.5 metres.
Weather
The chance of thunderstorms from the morning until late afternoon.
Tuesday 17 January
Winds
Northeasterly 10 to 15 knots turning easterly during the morning.
Seas
1 to 1.5 metres.
Swell
Southeasterly 0.5 to 1.5 metres.
Weather
The chance of thunderstorms offshore during the evening.