Hello Friends,
A drippy start to Wednesday but even with an approaching high tide (0850), there were a few waist to chest wave faces at the better spots. The 0700 data from offshore showed 1.7 metres of SE swell at 13 seconds. The spectra reveals that it’s a mix of 7-8 sec east and longer period SE and that’s a good combo for Sydney as it tends to deliver peaky conditions for most beaches. As the pictures show, there were waves of some sort from south Steyne to Queensie, from south to north Curly, from the point at Dee Why up to No Mans and at Northy.
The Bureau reckons the NE component should pick up across the middle part of the day and that wind will be from the N to NW. That’ll foreclose a few of this morning’s options, but there should still be something around if you’re keen.
Tomorrow the outlook is for SW early grading to weak SE later. Our combo is predicted to continue with both the south and NE swell size expected to come up a touch. The big question is what will the average period look like. The Bureau doesn’t forecast period, but the models are pointing to a slight decrease for tomorrow and then a bump back up Friday. Should the surfable somewhere through the week I’d say.
On another matter, yesterday I dropped in on the final walk-through meeting for Surfrider Foundation’s big International Surfing Day fundraiser on Friday night and it looks like quite a night with barefoot bowls (I’ve challenged 702ABC radio’s Simon Marnie to a game) through to the Celibate Rifles. Jack McCoy’s gonna show some of his all-time best footage and of course the place will be swarming with surfing royalty. Hope to see you there!
This morning’s piccies
