Hello Friends,
This morning sees marginal but not flat conditions at protected stretches. There’s about a metre of 8-sec east wind swell out at sea and the wind is lightly NE under mainly cloudy skies. The Collaroy to Narrabeen stretch looked pretty junky but it was showing chest plus wave faces on sets. When I checked it a little before 0800 I could see only one person in the water along the southern stretch and catching waves looked like hard work. Around the corner at Long Reef there were lots more folks in the water. They were riding mostly longer boards to cope with the gutlessness.Tide hits low at 0850 and will be back to high at 1445.
Surf outlook is for wave energy levels to further decrease across the day and to trend steadily toward near flatness across the week ahead. The showery weather is set to continue too.
Hope to be proven wrong of course!
(Your slightly jetlagged correspondent has returned to the RealSurf wheelhouse after two long months away. Huge thanks to the Goat and Michael M. for keeping the local content conning while I was sending postcards.)
Have a good one!
Weather Situation
A high pressure system over the southern Tasman Sea will direct northeasterly winds over New South Wales Waters for the first half of the week. A trough approaching from the west is likely to bring a southerly change to southern and central parts of the coast during Wednesday and to the north coast during Thursday.
Forecast for Monday until midnight
Winds
Northeasterly 15 to 20 knots.
Seas
1 to 1.5 metres.
Swell
Easterly 1.5 metres, decreasing to around 1 metre during the afternoon.
Weather
Partly cloudy. 50% chance of showers during the morning and afternoon. The chance of a thunderstorm.
Tuesday 21 March
Winds
Northeasterly 15 to 20 knots.
Seas
1 to 2 metres.
Swell
Northeasterly around 1 metre.
Weather
Cloudy. 80% chance of showers. The chance of a thunderstorm.
Wednesday 22 March
Winds
Northerly 15 to 20 knots shifting southerly 15 to 25 knots during the evening.
Seas
1 to 1.5 metres.
Swell
Northeasterly around 1 metre.
Weather
Cloudy. 80% chance of showers. The chance of a thunderstorm.
