Hello Friends,
Weakly sunny with light westerly wind as Monday got going along the beaches of Sydney. The breeze is expected to go around to the south this afternoon. The MHL buoy was showing a metre and a bit of SSW wind bump (period’s only 6-sec) so I reckon about the best you can hope for will be something into the knee to thigh range. Tide’s high at 0955, so there is a fatness factor too.
The models don’t offer a lot of hope this morning, but there does seem to be a slight prospect for a bump up in the swell later in the day. Naturally your correspondent will be keeping an eye on it. The models that pick up the prospect of a bump are showing it getting into the maybe waist plus range and at best lasting through tomorrow. Thereafter it seems to go quiet again ahead of another little uptick late Friday into Saturday morning. Right now, if I had to pick, I’d be calling the best hope for Friday afternoon.
Have yourself a great Monday and keep on smilin’!
Weather Situation
A complex cold front/trough system is moving offshore into the Tasman Sea. West to southwesterly winds behind the front will moderate during today, and become light and variable during Tuesday as a weak high pressure ridge develops over the western Tasman Sea. Winds will then turn northerly ahead of the next front moving through Wednesday afternoon and evening.
Forecast for Monday until midnight
Strong Wind Warning for Monday for Sydney Coast
Winds
West to southwesterly 15 to 20 knots, reaching up to 30 knots offshore early in the morning. Turning southerly below 10 knots in the early afternoon.
Seas
2 to 3 metres, decreasing to 1 to 1.5 metres during the morning, then decreasing below 1 metre during the afternoon.
1st Swell
Southerly 1.5 to 2.5 metres.
2nd Swell
Northeasterly around 1 metre.
Weather
Partly cloudy. 40% chance of showers offshore this morning.
Tuesday 20 September
Winds
Southwesterly 10 to 15 knots becoming variable about 10 knots in the morning then becoming north to northeasterly 15 to 20 knots in the early afternoon.
Seas
1 to 1.5 metres.
Swell
Southerly 1.5 to 2.5 metres, decreasing to 1 to 1.5 metres during the morning.
Weather
Partly cloudy.
Wednesday 21 September
Winds
Northerly 15 to 20 knots turning westerly 20 to 30 knots during the day.
Seas
1 to 1.5 metres, increasing to 2 to 2.5 metres offshore during the evening.
Swell
Southeasterly below 1 metre, tending south to southwesterly 1.5 to 2.5 metres during the evening.
Weather
Cloudy. 90% chance of rain.
