Hello Friends,
A run of warm days coming up apparently. Warm days and not much surf, if the Bureau has it right. From the crows nest at 0615, Dee Why could be seen to be hosting half a dozen hopeful participants out in front of the SLSC. After a very long wait, I finally got a snap of someone on a thigh to knee high little left. Judging from where people were sitting, that was probably about an average one.
Swell’s out of the SE at a metre at nearly 11 seconds apart. So, there should potentially be the odd waist plus set at ideally exposed spots. Tide’s high soon, so maybe as it drops… plus, wind will be reasonable for the exposed north corners too.
Today could be the low point surfwise for the next little while. It’s not that we’re likely to get anything big, but at least it should be a touch larger from tomorrow and then out through to the weekend. The warm days will likely encourage the NE’r from early and afternoons will entail sideshore options at best.
From about Saturday onward the charts are kind of interesting. They’re showing a fair amount of activity in the eastern Tasman as a couple of juicy looking systems come in from the north and south. However, this morning’s projections are showing the energy staying over toward NZ and maybe just brushing the north coast and Qld with something above the usual summer weakness. The very long range forecasts are speculating more spectacularly about the end of the month… but that’s la-la land for now.
Have yourself a bewt Tuesday!
Tides: H @0700, L @1340
Weather Situation
A fairly stationary high pressure system over the Tasman Sea maintains an east to northeasterly airstream over the New South Wales coastal waters this week. A trough is forecast to affect the state this weekend resulting in a southerly wind change over the southern half of the state on Saturday.
Forecast for Tuesday until midnight
Winds
Northeasterly below 10 knots, increasing to 15 to 20 knots in the late afternoon.
Seas
Below 1 metre, increasing to 1.5 to 2 metres during the afternoon.
Swell
Southerly around 1 metre.
Wednesday 15 January
Winds
Northeasterly 15 to 25 knots.
Seas
2 metres, decreasing below 1.5 metres during the morning, then increasing to 2 metres during the afternoon.
Swell
Southerly below 1 metre.
Thursday 16 January
Winds
Northeasterly 15 to 25 knots.
Seas
1 to 2 metres.
Swell
South to southeasterly below 1 metre.
