Hello Friends,
Hope you got a few from the last pulse in Sydney because today looks like being very small. At 0400 the MHL buoy was showing 0.7 metres of 9-sec E swell. The 0500 weather at North Head saw light WNW wind. The forecast calls for both wind and swell to stay at about those levels all day. High tide’s at 0700 and you could see a little shower activity late in the day. Tomorrow looks similarly low-energy, plus it’s expected to be properly rainy.
The models are pointing toward flat to near flat until around Sunday when there could be an influx of potentially interesting long period south swell and offshore wind. Some of the models show the swell being in the fun range right up to Wednesday.
Your correspondent has no tales of surfing derring-do to report because it remains unsurfably tiny in Santa Barbara and only marginal within an hour’s drive. Things look a lot more fun from about Malibu south. There’s some waist to chest plus SW swell down that way and the early morning sessions were probably pretty fun. Anyway, I’ve gathered a few postcards from surfline’s cameras since I don’t have any of my own to share…
Weather Situation
A weak high pressure system over the Tasman Sea extends a ridge to southeast Queensland while a weak low pressure trough lies over the south coast. A weak low is likely to develop offshore within the trough on Wednesday and then slowly move east. Winds throughout with turn north to northwesterly on Friday as the next front approaches from the west.
Forecast for Tuesday until midnight
Winds
Westerly 10 to 15 knots becoming variable about 10 knots in the middle of the day then easterly in the evening.
Seas
Below 0.5 metres, increasing to around 1 metre offshore.
Swell
Northeasterly below 1 metre.
Weather
Partly cloudy. 50% chance of rain this evening.
Wednesday 20 July
Winds
North to northeasterly about 10 knots tending north to northwesterly 10 to 15 knots early in the morning then becoming south to southwesterly in the evening.
Seas
Below 1 metre.
Swell
East to northeasterly below 1 metre.
Weather
Cloudy. 90% chance of rain.
Thursday 21 July
Winds
Southwesterly 10 to 15 knots becoming variable about 10 knots during the morning then becoming northwesterly 15 to 20 knots during the afternoon.
Seas
Below 1 metre, increasing to 1 to 1.5 metres offshore during the afternoon or evening.
Swell
Northeasterly around 1 metre.
Weather
Cloudy. 50% chance of rain.
