Hello Friends,
You wanted to be in for the early this morning – before the wind arrived and the tide swamped the joint. Lots of waves around the place. There were shoulder high sets to be found at places that like the NE swell direction. Heaps of bods in at North Narrabeen, some around the corner at little Narra and a few scattered down the beach toward Gardens. On the Dee Why to Longy stretch the energy levels were looking weaker, but there were peaks to be had from about the club north to the lugga.
We have a king tide at 1025 and the wind is set to be 15-20kts north turning NE 15-25kts later.
Swell should stick around all day, so if you can cope with sideshore conditions, then there should be a few options as the tide begins to drop toward the low at 1710.
Looking like a bit of the old rinse and repeat across the next couple days – ie, get in early at east to ne spots to beat the onshores and rising tide.
The pattern looks like sticking around all week and then, about the time yours truly hands the keys to the housesitter and heads west to family doings next Saturday, a longer period east swell courtesy of TC Evan.
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A couple snaps from the king tide taken at North Narrabeen this morning…
Weather Situation
A high pressure system centred near New Zealand is maintaining a ridge to the New South Wales north coast. A trough in the Coral Sea combined with the high pressure ridge is directing an east to southeasterly airstream to northern parts of the New South Wales coast. Northerly winds along the remainder of the coast will strengthen on Saturday afternoon or evening ahead of a trough with an associated southerly change expected to develop on the south coast Sunday afternoon. This trough and southerly change are expected to move through central parts of the coast on Monday, before becoming slow moving and weakening.
Forecast for Saturday until midnight
Winds
Northerly 15 to 20 knots turning northeasterly 15 to 25 knots in the afternoon.
Seas
1.5 to 2 metres.
Swell
Easterly 1.5 metres.
Sunday 16 December
Winds
Northeasterly 20 to 30 knots tending north to northeasterly 15 to 25 knots in the morning ahead of a southerly change 20 to 30 knots in the late evening or overnight. Inshore afternoon sea breezes.
Seas
Up to 3 metres decreasing below 2 metres around dawn then decreasing to below 1 metre around midday.
Swell
Easterly 2 to 3 metres.
Monday 17 December
Winds
Southerly 15 to 25 knots tending southeasterly 10 to 15 knots during the evening.
Seas
1.5 to 2 metres.
Swell
Easterly 2 metres tending southeasterly 1 to 2 metres from midday.
Weather
Isolated thunderstorms during the morning.
