Hello Friends,
Nothing much happening at the beach this morning. There were a couple of folks on SUPs up toward No Mans when I checked for the first time at around 0640. It looked to be maybe knee high on sets. Surface conditions were lightly choppy. Wind was light from the SW but should drift around to the S-SE for most of the day before turning NE 10-15 kts in the evening.
As of 0500 swell offshore was 2 metres from the SSE at a feeble 8 seconds. Tide is dropping to a 06 m low at 1035 and will be back to a 1.27 m high at 1645. Water is 23°
Weather should be partly cloudy with a high of 24°.
The swell models show the swell energy levels going up overnight and tomorrow the predictions are for around 2 m of 11 second SSE. At the same time the weather should be sunny and wind should north early then going NE later and the Bureau’s hoisted a large and powerful surf warning. The northerlies are set to blow again on Thursday as the swell fades across the day. But, with luck, there should still be a few fun ones for the early on Friday. Right now the weekend isn’t shaping to be too fabulous – but there is considerable variation, so maybe it won’t go flat per the more pessimistic predictions…
Have a top old Tuesday and here’s hoping for tomorrow.
Weather Situation
A high pressure system will move over the southern Tasman Sea later today extending a ridge along the coast and southerly winds will tend southeast to northeasterly. The next southerly change is expected to develop on the far south coast later on Thursday.
Forecast for Tuesday until midnight
- Winds
- South to southeasterly 10 to 15 knots becoming east to southeasterly below 10 knots in the early afternoon then tending east to northeasterly 10 to 15 knots in the evening.
- Seas
- Around 1 metre, decreasing below 1 metre around midday.
- 1st Swell
- Southerly 1 to 1.5 metres, increasing to 1.5 to 2 metres by early evening.
- 2nd Swell
- Easterly around 1 metre.
- Weather
- Partly cloudy.
Wednesday 11 April
- Winds
- Northeasterly 10 to 15 knots turning northerly 15 to 20 knots early in the morning. Winds reaching up to 25 knots offshore in the late evening.
- Seas
- Around 1 metre, increasing to 1 to 2 metres around midday.
- Swell
- Southeasterly 2.5 metres.
- Weather
- Mostly sunny.
- Caution
- Large and powerful surf conditions in the afternoon and evening are expected to be hazardous for coastal activities such as crossing bars by boat and rock fishing.
Thursday 12 April
- Winds
- Northerly 15 to 25 knots.
- Seas
- 1 to 1.5 metres, increasing to 1.5 to 2.5 metres offshore.
- 1st Swell
- Southeasterly 2 to 2.5 metres, decreasing to 1.5 metres during the evening.
- 2nd Swell
- Northeasterly 1 to 1.5 metres.
- Weather
- Sunny.
