Hello Friends,
Light offshore winds this morning under gloomy skies. Swell was mainly out of the E to ESE at a touch under 3 metres with an average period of 12 seconds. The ocean surface was considerably smoother than this time yesterday, but it has that kind of heaving, raw quality where nice sections lurch up for a moment and then fade or close out. Only a couple bods in the water at Dee Why point (where the water continues to look pretty foul from the run-off). Only folks surfing on the Collaroy-Narrabeen stretch were a dozen or so at Northy itself. They were taking off pretty far out the back, but the waves looked spilly rather than pitchy – if you get my drift.
Tide will be high at 1225 or so and back to low at 1815.
The wind is set to swing onshore soon, so the plan is to hit it early. Longer term it looks to me as though our exceptional run of sizable surf is going to finally fade away and that we’ll head into an extended period of mainly small to marginal conditions.
Go well with your Friday!
Forecast issued at 4:10 am EST on Friday 28 June 2013.
Weather Situation
A high pressure system east of Tasmania extends a ridge across the western Tasman Sea. Early on Sunday a low pressure trough will cross New South Wales coast as the high moves east and the ridge weakens. This trough is expected to deepen over the western Tasman Sea during Monday and Tuesday .
Forecast for Friday until midnight
- Winds
- Easterly 10 to 15 knots tending northeasterly in the evening then decreasing to about 10 knots in the late evening.
- Seas
- Up to 1 metre.
- Swell
- Easterly 2 to 2.5 metres, decreasing to 1.5 metres by early evening.
- Weather
- Isolated thunderstorms tonight.
Saturday 29 June
- Winds
- Northeasterly 10 to 15 knots decreasing to about 10 knots in the middle of the day.
- Seas
- Up to 1 metre.
- Swell
- Easterly 1.5 metres, decreasing to around 1 metre by early evening, then increasing to 1 to 1.5 metres later in the evening.
- Weather
- The chance of thunderstorms in the morning.
Sunday 30 June
- Winds
- Southeasterly below 10 knots, increasing to 10 to 15 knots during the morning.
- Seas
- Up to 1 metre.
- Swell
- Easterly 1.5 metres, decreasing to around 1 metre during the morning.
Please be awareWind gusts can be 40 percent stronger than the averages given here, and maximum waves may be up to twice the height.
