Hello Friends,
A light easterly at 0600 was giving Sydney’s beaches that morning sickness look. The wind’s going around to the south later though. You’ll have a 1.68 metre high tide around 1130 too. The MHL buoy was picking up close to two metres of 9-sec SE swell earlier this morning and looking at the cams, that means something very like yesterday at this time. So, if you found waves, go back there again first.
Swell should stick around at about the current intensity for the rest of the day, but it’s said to fade back to marginal to tiny by tomorrow. If the models have it right, the energy could come back to about the current levels on Thr-Fri… although there is some variation among the predictions. Periods are expected to be shorter than now and direction more easterly, which says to me knee to waist with possible plusses at magnets.
It’s micro still in the Santa Barbara area, so today’s postcard is another framegrab from one of the Surfline cams. This time the location is a couple of hours north from SB at a spot on the California central coast called Pismo Beach. It’s rarely good, but because there aren’t any offshore islands, whatever swell’s around will show up. Today it looks to be chest to maybe shoulder and a bit. As usual the banks are pretty bad, but the wind was still okay as of 1130 local time. Water’s probably around 12-14C.
Weather Situation
A high pressure system south of the Bight is moving east extending a ridge along the New South Wales coast and directing southwest to southeast winds. Winds will turn east to northeasterly during Wednesday as the high moves over the Tasman Sea maintaining the ridge to northwest.
Forecast for Tuesday until midnight
- Winds
- Southerly 15 to 20 knots decreasing to about 10 knots in the late evening.
- Seas
- Around 1 metre, increasing to 1 to 1.5 metres during the morning.
- Swell
- Southerly 1.5 to 2.5 metres.
- Weather
- Cloudy. 70% chance of showers.
Wednesday 15 February
- Winds
- South to southeasterly below 10 knots becoming northeasterly in the morning then increasing to 15 to 20 knots in the late afternoon.
- Seas
- Below 1 metre, increasing to 1 to 1.5 metres by early evening.
- Swell
- Southerly 1 to 1.5 metres, decreasing to around 1 metre around midday.
- Weather
- Partly cloudy. 20% chance of a shower offshore, near zero chance elsewhere.
Thursday 16 February
- Winds
- North to northeasterly 15 to 25 knots.
- Seas
- 1 to 2 metres.
- Swell
- Southerly below 1 metre.
- Weather
- Sunny.
