Hello Friends,
As the sun peeped over the horizon this morning it was clear that the swell had picked up overnight. Size at Dee Why point was into the waist to chest high range, while up the beach toward No Man’s, it seemed to be a touch bigger. The MHL buoy was recording close to 1.5 metres of 13-second ESE swell off Sydney as of 0500.
Wind was light early and the sea surface smooth, but the Bureau says it will come up from the NE and by this afternoon be into the 15-20 kt range.
The Bureau’s MetEye model shows the average height of swell at sea picking up today but only a little and then they project it fading back tomorrow. With any luck there’ll still be some fun ones though for Wednesday’s early. Beyond that, things don’t look too exciting. Thursday and Friday are shaping to be small to near flat but we might possibly see a tiny uptick for Saturday – unfortunately it looks like lots of SE wind too…
Enjoy the day one and all and hope you get something worthy!
Tides: H @0620 L @1300
Weather Situation
A high pressure ridge lies over the western Tasman Sea, while a trough extends through central Australia from a low centred in the Bight. North to northeasterly winds will increase in most coastal areas today as the trough moves slowly east, bringing a southerly change to the southern coast on Wednesday. The trough is expected to decay in the north during Thursday, with many areas seeing a return to northerly winds as a feeble high pressure system drifts across from the west. Another, stronger, trough and associated southerly change is forecast to affect the coast during Friday and Saturday.
Forecast for Tuesday until midnight
- Winds
- North to northeasterly below 10 knots increasing to 15 to 20 knots in the afternoon.
- Seas
- Below 1 metre, increasing to 1 to 1.5 metres during the afternoon.
- Swell
- Southeasterly 1 to 2 metres.
- Weather
- Partly cloudy.
Wednesday 18 March
- Winds
- North to northeasterly 15 to 20 knots.
- Seas
- 1 to 2 metres.
- Swell
- Easterly 1 to 2 metres, tending northeasterly by early evening.
- Weather
- Partly cloudy. 40% chance of showers.
Thursday 19 March
- Winds
- Southerly 15 to 25 knots tending east to northeasterly 10 to 15 knots during the evening.
- Seas
- 1 to 2 metres.
- Swell
- Northeasterly 1 to 1.5 metres.
- Weather
- Sunny.