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

Feeble but not flat

Hello Friends,

Not utterly hopeless this morning. There were little knee high dribblers scudding gently in on a relatively glassy sea for the early risers. The MHL buoy is showing the primary swell direction as NE at about 6-7 seconds apart. Height of the average wave is somewhere around the metre mark.

Wind was light and from the ENE at most spots. However, the forecast says it should go around more to the north as the day gets going. Yesterday the Bureau said we’d be getting strong NE winds and as a consequence I was hoping for some possible improvement to size for the late.

It’s going to be stinkin’ hot later and the murky skies align well with the 60% chance of percipitation late this afternoon.

Next tide is the high at 0930 and the low will be along at 1610.

Outlook for tomorrow (when yours truly will be spending most of the day helping out on the Surfrider stall at Ocean Care Day in Manly)? It’s likely to be a bit smaller, sadly. Not sure if I’ll take the board actually.

Outlook for the coming week is for tiny conditions until about Wednesday when, according to this morning’s swell modelling, we could get a boost of energy from the south. At this stage it looks as though we could see shoulder to head high plus at south spots. Woohoo! Been a loooong time since…

Stay cool and go well with your Saturday!

Weather Situation
A high pressure system over the southern Tasman Sea is slowly moving east maintaining a ridge to New South Wales north coast. A low pressure trough will bring southerly change to the far south coast later this evening extending to the central coast Sunday morning and to the far north coast early Monday.
Forecast for Saturday until midnight
Winds
Northerly 15 to 25 knots.
Seas
Up to 1.5 metres.
Swell
Easterly about 1.5 metres.
Weather
The chance of thunderstorms during the evening.
Sunday 2 December
Winds
Variable about 10 knots becoming southerly 15 to 20 knots early in the morning then tending southeasterly in the late afternoon.
Seas
Below 1 metre increasing up to 1.5 metres during the morning then increasing to 2 metres during the afternoon.
Swell
Northeasterly about 1.5 metres tending easterly 1 metre late in the evening.
Monday 3 December
Winds
Southeasterly 10 to 15 knots becoming northeasterly 10 to 15 knots in the afternoon.
Seas
Up to 1.5 metres.
Swell
Southeasterly 1 metre.