Hello Friends,
Nothing doing as Thursday gets going on the Northern Beaches. Only a rime of foam at the point and just the tiniest of lines coming into the beach on a beautiful sunny morning with comparatively mild (for winter) temperatures. The Bureau says the swell should come up a little around midday and the wind should be offshore too. There has been a small increase way down south at Eden, but 1.24 metres isn’t a lot bigger than the 0.94 metres recorded off Sydney at the same time.
Tide was a 1.3m high at 0620 and is now headed to the low at noon.
The Goat usually drops his weekly forecast on Thursday afternoons, so as always I’ll be keen to see how he reads the runes. From the shape of the models it looks to me as though we have another 5-6 days of micro conditions before a possible modest and brief uptick mid next week…
Have yourself a great Thursday everybody!
Weather Situation
A slow-moving low pressure system lies to the southeast of Tasmania. A cold front associated with this system has crossed the New South Wales coast overnight, accompanied by fresh west to southwesterly winds. Conditions will ease today as the low moves away and a weak high pressure ridge develops over the state’s east. Coastal winds will increase again on Friday as another front moves through the region, with yet another to follow on the weekend. This pattern will maintain generally westerly winds through the forecast period.
Forecast for Thursday until midnight
Winds
Southwesterly 10 to 15 knots, reaching up to 20 knots offshore early in the morning. Winds tending westerly in the morning then decreasing to around 10 knots in the late evening.
Seas
1.5 to 2 metres, decreasing below 1 metre during the afternoon.
Swell
Southerly around 1 metre, increasing to 1 to 1.5 metres around midday.
Weather
Mostly sunny. 20% chance of a shower offshore, near zero chance elsewhere.
Friday 7 July
Winds
West to northwesterly about 10 knots increasing to 15 to 20 knots in the morning.
Seas
Below 1 metre, increasing to 1 to 1.5 metres offshore during the morning.
Swell
Southerly 1 to 1.5 metres.
Weather
Mostly sunny. 20% chance of a shower offshore, near zero chance elsewhere.
Saturday 8 July
Winds
Westerly 15 to 20 knots.
Seas
1 to 2 metres.
Swell
Southerly below 1 metre.
Weather
Mostly sunny. 20% chance of a shower.
