Hello Friends,
At 0730 wind was out of the NNE at 5-7 kts and the 0500 data from Sydney’s MHL waverider buoy was showing 1.25 metres of 7-sec east wind bump. Tide was heading toward the low at 1135 (it’ll be high again at 1730). There were a reasonable number of people in the water at Dee Why but, if anything, it looked a bit lighter crowd-wise than you’d usually see on a sunny Sunday morning. Waves were in the knee to waist range and breaking pretty close to the beach.
A quick scan of the forecast models suggests that we’re probably stuck in this pattern of small, short period wind junk for another week or so. Yesterday it looked like there might be something in the way of a south pulse late in the week, but this morning’s projections mostly aren’t showing much. That said, the Bureau’s Auswave model is predicting a major system in the might just ahead of the weekend and some of the long range models seem to be indicating that we could see something on the east coast from it briefly around Sun-Mon.
Have yourself a great Sunday everyone!
Weather Situation
A slow-moving high pressure system over the Tasman Sea extends a ridge along the northern New South Wales coast. This pattern will maintain an east to northeasterly airstream over the coast for the next few days, apart from a brief southerly change along the south coast on Monday as a trough moves through. A stronger southerly change is forecast to move up the coast during Wednesday and Thursday.
Forecast for Sunday until midnight
Winds
North to northeasterly 15 to 20 knots increasing to 20 to 25 knots in the late afternoon.
Seas
1 to 1.5 metres, increasing to 2 metres during the afternoon.
Swell
East to northeasterly around 1 metre.
Weather
Partly cloudy.
Monday 9 January
Winds
Northerly 20 to 25 knots turning northeasterly in the middle of the day.
Seas
1.5 to 2 metres.
Swell
Northeasterly below 1 metre.
Weather
Sunny.
Tuesday 10 January
Winds
North to northeasterly 15 to 25 knots.
Seas
1.5 to 2.5 metres, decreasing to 1 to 1.5 metres during the morning.
Swell
Northeasterly 1 to 1.5 metres.
Weather
Cloudy. 20% chance of a shower.
