Quiet Sunday morning
Hello Friends, Light westerly breeze under mostly cloudy skies as of 0730 Sunday morning at Dee Why. Yesterday’s little south pulse has faded away to pretty much nothing. Out at sea swell is about a metre from the SE at 7-8 sec, but along the beach and at the point in Dee Why, there didn’t […]
Junky and chunky but not flat
Hello Friends, Slightly chilly and breezy under mostly cloudy skies around 0630 when I did the Saturday radio report check out run. Quality, as the pictures show, was not great. It was inconsistent, choppy and around the waist to chest high range on the biggest ones. There were a couple bods chasing lumps at Northy, […]
Rainy morning at last
Hello Friends, Good to see the rainy weather at last. But no real energy showing at Dee Why as of 0715. Three hours earlier, the MHL buoy was showing 1.8 metres of 8-sec NE wind swell as the dominant influence. The directional spectrum plot was also showing similar levels of energy out of the south […]
TG’s Surf Forecast
Surf forecast issued Thursday 19 October 2017: Seven day outlook for Sydney: Fab weather today… Sunny, 26, Noreaster pushing in some waves at the right places/ right tides. But if you’re making hay, then you might want to get stuck into it, because the Bureau is saying there’s a 100 % chance it’ll get wet […]
Hang ten (decades): Walter Munk, inventor of the surf forecast, turns 100
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Like big waves? Thanks to surf forecasting, you’ll know when and where to find them. Shalom Jacobovitz/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA Paul Spence, UNSW and Shane Keating, UNSW As dawn washes over Bondi Beach, you can see the surfers beyond the break, gently rising and falling on their boards. They gather like this when the […]
More activity, but is it surfable?
Hello Friends, Wind was a light but steady northerly at 0700. It should swing around to the NE later and should be a strong 20-25 kts by dusk. The MHL spectrum analysis was showing both a small south component and two metres of 6-sec NE wind swell as of 0400. Tide was coming into the […]
Bumps but not a lot more
Hello Friends, Light NNE wind lumping up the full conditions at 0730 when I grabbed the pictures. Tide was just running into a 1.6 m high at 0810. The MHL buoy’s 0400 data indicated 1.7 m of 9-second wind bump from the NE and as a consequence there wasn’t much going on at Dee Why. […]
Weak and tiny Tuesday morning
Hello Friends, Another tiny morning for Dee Why. According to the 0400 observations from MHL, there was 1 metre of 12 sec east swell out at sea. Dee Why’s not much of an east magnet, so there wasn’t much above ankle to knee high at the southern end of the beach. There should be slightly […]
Little bumps on a sunny morning
Hello Friends, A faint NE breeze was giving the ocean a little texture at 0715. Not the ideal wind direction for Dee Why, but since there is no swell to speak of, it’s all theoretical anyway. The most interesting thing on the MNL buoy this morning isn’t the odd read out for Sydney (SE 1.2 […]
Spring conditions
Hello Friends, The pictures tell the story surfers. Mostly cloudy skies with a steady 8-10 kts of SE wind chopping up the surface of a swell-free ocean. The MHL buoy was showing 1.3 m of 10-sec SSE swell, but there’s no hint of energy at Dee Why, however you might get a little mal-able dribble […]