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Waiting for a change on both sides

Hello Friends, Partly cloudy, light winds and a touch of south swell for Sydney this morning. Tide’s high at 0645 or so. From the look of things, the metre of 13-sec south swell being picked up by the MHL buoy last night should still be around that intensity this morning. My guess is that there […]

Monday

First day of the school hols and there are small waves for the kids, about 1 metre or so…no wind at the moment, glassy conditions but it’s a bit cool around 11 . Water’s still warmer at 19 Have fun! Forecast from the Bureau Forecast for the rest of Monday Summary Max 19 Partly cloudy. […]

You’re not missing a thing in Cali

Hello Friends, Ain’t no cure for the summertime blues… southern California still waiting for something, anything to materialise. So, leaving that aside, the obvious question is what’re the models showing for Sydney town? Well, as of 0400, the MHL buoy was picking up only the barest hint of swell. It seems to be about a […]

Saturday report

What a great morning… blue sky, sunshine, not a cloud in the sky… but it’s pretty cool – currently around 8 or 9, but expected to get to 19 later. There are some little waves around, 1-1.5 metre or so East South East, and although the water temp is just under 20 it’s definitely chilly […]

Looks weak from over here…

Hello Friends, At 0600 it was pretty much dead south and 1.6 metres at 8.5 seconds in Sydney. So, from long experience, I’m thinking waist-ish at south magnets this morning. Wind was still out the WSW when I wrote this, but it’s set to go southerly and then SE later. So, not the best prospects […]

The Goat’s Surf Forecast

Surf outlook for Sydney: Seven day forecast Well the torrential rain that suddenly drenched the Northern Beaches today after a brilliant sunny morning has mostly passed on its merry way…and the Bureau expects the weather to improve for the weekend. Surf was small early today but provided some fun for the grommets before the southerly […]

Postcard from Cali and a few thoughts about Sydney surf outlook too

Hello Friends, Through a fog of jet lag, your correspondent can report that surf conditions between LA and Ventura were not wildly dissimilar to what your’re seeing in Sydney today. Although there were healthy crowds at places like Malibu and California Street in Ventura, wave faces were in the knee to waist (at best) range. […]

Looking small at Dee Why this morning

Hello Friends, Energy’s faded out where Dee Why’s concerned this morning. At 0600 the MHL buoy off Sydney was detecting a metre of 10-second ESE swell. Tide was low at 0700, but even though it’s coming in now, the point was unsurfably small and any waves along the beach were too small to be seen […]

Fit your expectations to reality

Hello Friends, Winter solstice is shaping up to be a beautiful day. The swell has faded a fair amount overnight but there were still some waist high peaks here and there. I spotted one at Manly (see pic) and around at Curly there seemed to be another at the south end. Heading over the hill […]

Showery still but clean for the first shift

Hello Friends, My usual leisurely Sunday start and whadya know, there’s a shower pattering down outside as I write this, but the expected southerly wind hasn’t kicked in yet and the swell’s ticking over nicely down at the point. At 0800 the swell was coming at us from the SE. It was 2 metres on […]