Hello Friends,
Relatively smooth surface conditions on Monday morning under grey skies. Alas, waves were really small at Dee Why. There was one optimistic surfer bobbing around off the point, but I didn’t see anything remotely catchable come through. Up the beach it looked to be in the waist high range on the bigger ones, but there wasn’t anybody in the water to measure against.
Swell is a touch under 8 seconds apart out of the NE and was 1.4 metres at sea as of 0500. More exposed spots might offer better prospects, but that short period means you can’t expect much juice.
Outlook remains humdrum across the next week at least, but it seems likely to be particularly humdrum for the next couple of days. Some of the models are showing a east pulse with a 10+ second period materialising Thursday morning. Problem is that the projected swell height is less than a metre, so I’m not getting too excited. The very long range models aren’t projecting any dramatic changes for us before the end of the month. A very slow start to the autumn surf season from the look of it.
The magic days are getting closer though, so keep on smilin’ and have a top old Monday!
Tides: L @0520, H @1130
Weather Situation
A high pressure system over the southern Tasman Sea is moving east maintaining a ridge to the New South Wales north coast. During Tuesday a cold front will bring a southerly change to southern and central parts of the coast before weakening in the north on Wednesday.
Forecast for Monday until midnight
- Winds
- North to northeasterly 15 to 25 knots.
- Seas
- 1 to 1.5 metres, increasing to 1.5 to 2 metres during the afternoon.
- Swell
- Easterly 1 to 1.5 metres, tending northeasterly around 1 metre during the morning.
- Weather
- 40% chance of showers this morning. Mostly sunny afternoon.
Tuesday 24 March
- Winds
- Northerly 15 to 25 knots shifting southerly in the afternoon.
- Seas
- 1.5 to 2.5 metres, decreasing to 1 to 1.5 metres during the morning.
- Swell
- Northeasterly around 1 metre, increasing to 1 to 1.5 metres during the morning, then tending easterly below 1 metre by early evening.
- Weather
- Partly cloudy. 80% chance of showers. The chance of a thunderstorm in the afternoon and evening.
Wednesday 25 March
- Winds
- Southerly 20 to 30 knots decreasing to 15 to 20 knots during the morning then shifting east to northeasterly during the afternoon.
- Seas
- 1.5 to 2.5 metres.
- Swell
- Southerly 1 to 1.5 metres.
- Weather
- Partly cloudy. 40% chance of showers.
