Hello Friends,
At 0700 the wind was light but already starting to move around to the NE. The Bureau says it’ll be 20-25 kts by lunch time and then25-30 kts by dusk. The East swell is around the 2 metre mark with an average period of 11 seconds. At Dee Why this was taking the form of waist to shoulder high sets at the point and beach respectively. The banks at the latter remain problematic though. Tide was still coming into the high at 0845 when I grabbed the snaps and assessed the conditions. It looks as though we continue to have issues with junkiness and lumpiness thanks to an ordinary combo of the banks themselves, complicated by tide and swell direction. You’ll have to look around to find something I’d say.
From the look of the forecast modelling this morning, we should have swell generally from the east from now through to the weekend. Quality looks like being best early ahead of the wind, but I don’t see anything too amazing on the quality scale. Still, I’ll take so-so surf over flatness anytime!
Have yourself a great day everyone!
Forecast issued at 4:10 am EDT on Wednesday 4 December 2013.
Weather Situation
A high pressure system is moving slowly east across the southern Tasman Sea maintaining a ridge to New South Wales north coast. Later on Wednesday a cold front will bring southerly change to the far south coast. This change is expected to extend to the central coast Thursday morning and to the far north coast by early Friday.
Forecast for Wednesday until midnight
Strong Wind Warning for Wednesday for Sydney Coastal Waters
Winds
Northerly 20 to 30 knots tending north to northeasterly 20 to 25 knots in the morning then increasing to 25 to 30 knots in the late afternoon.
Seas
2 metres, increasing to 2 to 3 metres during the morning.
Swell
Easterly 1 to 1.5 metres.
Weather
The chance of thunderstorms tonight.
Thursday 5 December
Strong Wind Warning for Thursday for Sydney Coastal Waters
Winds
Northerly 20 to 30 knots tending southeast to southwesterly 15 to 25 knots early in the morning then tending westerly 25 to 30 knots in the late evening.
Seas
2 to 3 metres, decreasing below 2 metres during the morning, then decreasing below 1 metre during the afternoon.
Swell
Easterly 1 to 1.5 metres, tending northeasterly 1.5 to 2 metres before dawn, then decreasing to 1 to 1.5 metres during the morning.
Weather
Isolated thunderstorms.
Friday 6 December
Winds
West to southwesterly 20 to 30 knots shifting southeasterly 10 to 15 knots during the afternoon.
Seas
2 to 3 metres, decreasing below 2 metres during the afternoon.
Swell
Northeast to southeasterly 1 to 1.5 metres, tending southerly 1.5 to 2.5 metres during the morning.
