Hello Friends,
Quick! Make that pledge you’ve been putting off and then get out the door for your nearest south swell spot because as predicted the waves are here on a sunny, incoming tide and offshore morning. The MHL directional spectra chart shows the main energy coming from the south at about 8 seconds apart, but there’s also a small, longer period SE component too. That combo is delivering chest to shoulder plus wave faces along the beach at Dee Why and waist to chest plusses at the point.
Conditions are really coming together nicely for us: sunny skies, offshores going variable in the morning before swinging NE in the arvo. Tide’s low at 0710 and then only comes up about a metre to the high at 1345.
Hope to return later with a picture or two! Go well and don’t forget to take care of that pledge you’ve been meaning to do for weeks now!
Forecast issued at 4:10 am EST on Friday 27 September 2013.
Weather Situation
A high centred near Victoria border is moving over NSW in a wake of the recent cold front. The high will be associated with southwesterly airstream easing on Friday morning, followed by northeasterlies by the end of the day. The next cold front is forecast to enter the far southwest tonight and to cross the state during Saturday, bringing another strong and gusty southwesterly change.
Forecast for Friday until midnight
Winds
Southwesterly 15 to 20 knots becoming variable about 10 knots in the morning then becoming northeasterly 15 to 25 knots in the afternoon.
Seas
1.5 to 2 metres, decreasing below 1 metre during the morning, then increasing to 1.5 to 2 metres later in the evening.
Swell
Northeast to southeasterly 1.5 metres, tending southerly 2 to 3 metres around dawn, then decreasing to 1.5 to 2 metres by early evening.
Saturday 28 September
Strong wind warning for Saturday for Sydney Coastal Waters
Winds
Northerly 15 to 20 knots shifting west to southwesterly 20 to 25 knots in the early afternoon. Winds may reach up to 30 knots in the afternoon and evening.
Seas
1 to 1.5 metres, increasing to 2 to 2.5 metres during the afternoon.
Swell
Southerly 1.5 to 2 metres, decreasing to 1 to 1.5 metres during the morning, then decreasing to around 1 metre during the afternoon.
Sunday 29 September
Winds
Southwesterly 15 to 25 knots becoming variable about 10 knots during the morning.
Seas
1.5 to 2 metres, decreasing below 1 metre during the morning.
Swell
Southerly 1 to 2 metres, decreasing to 1 to 1.5 metres during the evening.
