Hello Friends,
Very light wind under grey and occasionally drizzly skies as the day got started. Happily there was some waist to chest southeast swell getting picked up by the magnet peaks. Swell’s around the 1.5 metre mark with an average period of 9 seconds or so. It wasn’t doing much at Dee Why point but up the beach at No Mans it looked fun. There were waves in the waist to chest plus range from there pretty much up to Longy. Around at Collaroy Narrabeen there were a few little focal points in the waist to chest range and quite a crew at Northy.
Wind should be light this morning before dribbling around to the NE as the swell fades out on us and stays faded for the next few days. Could be a pulse in the latter half of the coming week – assuming the models are calling it accurately. That’ll be good for all the jousting down at Manly because if those models are right, we could be looking at shoulder to head plus from around Thursday onward. The very long range projections are currently projecting a steady supply of solid 10-sec, 2 metre east energy from Friday into the middle of the following week. So, maybe a slow start for the comp, but potentially finishing with a bang.
Have yourself some fun and take it easy, there’s gonna be lots and lots of folk in the water wherever you find a wave this morning.
Weather Situation
A high pressure system east of Victoria is drifting slowly east while extending a ridge along the New South Wales coast. Southeasterly winds will shift northeasterly in southern and central areas over the weekend as the the high moves across the Tasman Sea. A trough is expected to affect the southern half of the coast late Sunday or Monday.
Forecast for Saturday until midnight
- Winds
- Variable below 10 knots becoming northeasterly 10 to 15 knots in the late afternoon. Winds reaching up to 20 knots inshore in the late evening.
- Seas
- Below 1 metre, increasing to around 1 metre by early evening.
- Swell
- Southerly 1.5 to 2 metres, decreasing to 1 to 1.5 metres during the morning.
- Weather
- Partly cloudy. 20% chance of a shower this morning.
Sunday 8 February
- Winds
- North to northeasterly 10 to 15 knots, reaching up to 20 knots inshore early in the morning.
- Seas
- 1 to 1.5 metres, decreasing to 1 metre during the morning.
- Swell
- Southerly around 1 metre.
- Weather
- Sunny.
Monday 9 February
- Winds
- Northeasterly 10 to 15 knots shifting south to southeasterly during the morning then becoming variable about 10 knots during the evening.
- Seas
- 1 to 1.5 metres, decreasing to 1 metre during the morning.
- Swell
- South to southeasterly around 1 metre.
- Weather
- Partly cloudy.
