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

Southerly early and small too

Hello Friends,

Blergh. Hard to be enthusiastic about surfin’ this morning when the wind is anywhere from 10 to 20 kts plus at 0630 and the ripped up two metre SSE wind swell has an average period of maybe 7 seconds.The wind’s set to keep at it all day and through most of tomorrow when it’s set to go NE in the afternoon.’

If the swell comes more around to the east as some models predict, there could be the odd fun little wave tomorrow arvo after the wind changes. But other than that, the models bring us no joy on the longer term outlook.

There’s activity in the deep southern ocean, but by the time the systems get past Tassie and into our swell window, it looks like persistent high pressure systems will bounce them off toward NZ, thereby keeping the energy away from us. So, not much of a surf week coming up from what I can tell this morning.

Somebody must be expecting to pick up a new board… 😉

Go well with your Saturday adventures one and all!

Weather Situation
A cold front and associated southerly change that affected southern and central parts of the New South Wales coast yesterday will continue to the northern border today. In the wake of this change a high pressure system to the west is extending a ridge over the region, with southerly winds expected to ease as the high drifts eastwards during Sunday. A weaker southerly change is forecast for the southern and central coasts late Monday or Tuesday, with winds then turning northeasterly again ahead of a more significant frontal system at the end of the week.
Forecast for Saturday until midnight
Winds
Southerly 15 to 20 knots turning south to southeasterly 10 to 15 knots in the evening.
Seas
1 to 2 metres.
Swell
Easterly 1.5 metres tending southeasterly about 2 metres this afternoon and evening.
Sunday 11 November
Winds
Southeasterly 10 to 15 knots turning east to northeasterly 15 to 20 knots in the evening.
Seas
Below 1 metre.
Swell
Southerly about 2 metres.
Monday 12 November
Winds
Northeasterly 10 to 15 knots turning northerly 15 to 20 knots during the day.
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
Southeasterly about 1.5 metres.