Hello Friends,
The clouds parted this morning to reveal a very small and scrappy looking ESE wind swell lapping in from the ESE. As of 0400, it was about a metre at 9 seconds and that meant occasional waist high sets for Dee Why as the 0810 high tide arrived.
I could only see one person chasing the junk burgers at Dee Why as the morning kicked off. The shutdowns continue sadly, so it was a long wait for maybe two turns before you were straightening off.
Wind was light, but as the pictures show, the surface was chopped up and the ocean wasn’t the nicest colour. Beachwatch says pollution’s unlikely at Dee Why, but from Curly south to Manly, it’s rated as p[ossible.
It looks as though the coming week will see the continued dominance of strong high pressure over the bight and the Tasman, so the general outlook is for more of the same marginal stuff.
Whilst the outlook for the next week to 10 days is uninspiring, this morning’s long range projections are going gaga about our prospects for mid month. A couple of model interpretations are showing sustained really big, long period east swell. If today’s call was to play out, we’d see 4-5 days of continuous, powerful surf. I guess anything’s a possibility, but I can’t recall anything like this happening in a very long time.
Of course this could turn out to be nothing more than extrapolation gone mad. So, while fun to see, I’m not clearing the diary for mid-March just yet.
Have yourself a great Monday and keep on smilin’!
Weather Situation
A high pressure system near Tasmania is moving east extending a ridge to the northern Tasman Sea. This high will move to the southwestern Tasman Sea later today, strengthening a ridge along the New South Wales coast. A cold front is expected to bring a brief southerly change to the south coast during Wednesday.
Forecast for Monday until midnight
Winds
East to southeasterly 10 to 15 knots.
Seas
Below 1 metre.
Swell
Easterly around 1 metre.
Tuesday 4 March
Winds
Variable about 10 knots becoming northeasterly 10 to 15 knots in the evening.
Seas
Below 1 metre.
Swell
East to southeasterly around 1 metre.
Wednesday 5 March
Winds
North to northeasterly 10 to 15 knots.
Seas
1 to 1.5 metres.
Swell
Southerly around 1 metre.
