Hello Friends,
No good news for Dee Why this morning really. Well, I guess it is sunny and glassy. That’s good. But waves are few and far between. Sets are struggling to crack the knee high mark on the bigger ones.
What we have is coming mainly from the ENE at about 7 seconds apart. It’s around a metre at sea, so I suppose at an ideally exposed spot, you might see something around waist high every now and again. So, not absolutely flat.
Looking at this morning’s swell modelling efforts, it seems as though the expected east pulse is still more or less on schedule to start sending us a few forerunners late Thursday and Friday, but the peak seems to have shifted to Sunday-Monday. A couple of the interpretations say we won’t see much of anything until Sunday, others reckon the fun could start Friday. Wind will be pretty strong though. The Bureau says mainly northerly on Friday; SW early Saturday, then NNW; Sunday looks like very strong northerlies, but come Monday, it’s set to be strongly offshore…
All very interesting to contemplate…
Go well with your Tuesday one and all!
Forecast issued at 4:10 am EDT on Tuesday 11 March 2014.
Weather Situation
A high pressure system over the southern Tasman Sea extends a ridge into New South Wales, while a trough approaches from the southwest. This trough is expected to bring a southerly change to the southern coast during Wednesday as the ridge weakens and contracts east. The trough should then move to central parts on Thursday before stalling and decaying. There are early indications that a cold front may affect the region later on the weekend.
Forecast for Tuesday until midnight
Winds
Northeasterly 10 to 15 knots, reaching up to 20 knots inshore in the afternoon/evening.
Seas
Below 1 metre.
Swell
Easterly around 1 metre, increasing to 1 to 1.5 metres around midday.
Wednesday 12 March
Winds
Northeasterly 15 to 20 knots tending northerly before dawn then becoming variable about 10 knots in the early afternoon.
Seas
1 to 1.5 metres, decreasing below 1 metre around midday.
Swell
East to northeasterly 1 to 1.5 metres.
Weather
The chance of thunderstorms at night.
Thursday 13 March
Winds
North to northeasterly 10 to 15 knots.
Seas
Around 1 metre.
Swell
Easterly 1 to 1.5 metres.
