Hello Friends,
Well, our two month campaign is into its final hours. It finishes at 0100 tomorrow morning, so if you’ve been sitting on the sidelines, the time has come to join the more than 200 Friends of RealSurf who’ve already made their pledges. It’d be great to finish up what has been a very successful campaign with a final flourish. Be fantastic if those of you who’ve been meaning to do something could jump on board!
Although I’ve had to postpone the planned closing night party, we’re definitely going to get together to mark the crowdfunding achievement as soon as I’m in a position to reschedule. Thanks to all who’ve sent sympathetic messages too. My friend got through her operation but there’s a long hard road still ahead and my family and I are making sure the decks are clear in case we should need to drop everything and go north.
The last day of our crowdfunding drive dawned with a scrappy little east wind swell flopping into Dee Why with a light north ruffling the surface. Only a couple of people in the water, which tells you something in itself. The MHL spectral analysis from the Sydney buoy is showing a metre of 9 sec east and something similar from the south. Sets at Dee Why look to be around the knee to waist high and pretty weak. The wind is already ramping up out in the fire areas and we can expect it to start picking up from the N to NW out on the coast soon. Tide is high at 1035 and my guess is that we’ll have junky sideshore conditions all day. One for the desperados.
Tomorrow doesn’t look too hopeful at this stage, but come Friday the models are pointing toward a sort of sputtery run of south energy. Some of the interpretations of the data are projecting for potentially fun conditions from as early as tomorrow evening at south spots. If the modelling is even close to right, we should have stuff to play on in the mornings from Friday through to Monday.
Go well with your day and please make a pledge if you haven’t already!
Forecast issued at 4:20 am EDT on Wednesday 23 October 2013.
Weather Situation
A vigorous and complex low pressure system over the Bass Strait moves over the southern Tasman Sea this afternoon. Northerly winds ahead of this system this morning tend northwesterly later followed by a south to southwesterly wind change in the afternoon. Conditions will begin to ease as a strong high pressure system over the Bight extends a ridge over NSW into Thursday.
Forecast for Wednesday until midnight
Strong wind warning for Wednesday for Sydney Coastal Waters
Winds
North to northwesterly 20 to 30 knots shifting southwesterly during the day.
Seas
1 to 2 metres, decreasing below 1 metre during the morning, then increasing to 1 to 1.5 metres by early evening.
Swell
Northeasterly 1.5 metres.
Thursday 24 October
Strong wind warning for Thursday for Sydney Coastal Waters
Winds
South to southwesterly 20 to 30 knots decreasing to 15 to 25 knots in the afternoon.
Seas
1.5 to 2.5 metres, decreasing below 1.5 metres by early evening.
Swell
Northeasterly 1 to 1.5 metres, decreasing to around 1 metre around midday.
Friday 25 October
Winds
Southerly 10 to 15 knots turning westerly during the morning then becoming variable about 10 knots during the day.
Seas
Around 1 metre.
Swell
Southerly 1 to 1.5 metres.
