"Stay happy and you'll be perfectly fine" - Jack Norris

Small Sunday but if you’re keen should be something

Hello Friends,

A deep 1.7 m high tide at 0700 means everywhere was swamped for the early. There looks to still be some waist-ish weak little wind bump wafting in, so it’s not totally hopeless. Plus it’s going to be 29 C later, so finding a park at the beach will be a challenge. Wind wasn’t too significant as Sunday got started but those light northerly breezes will swing around to the NE and by this afternoon they’ll be into the 15-25 ktl range. The Sydney buoy is still offline, but looking at the Pt Kembla and Crowdy Head data, you’d have to guess Sydney was seeing around a metre of 8-9 sec mainly east bump.

Tomorrow is shaping to be windy earlier but there could be a combo south + NE swell situation that might produce some modestly fun ones at points of focus…

Southern California is basking under sunny skies today, but the post-frontal W-NW wind and paltry swell, is taking most spots off the menu. Plus that water still looks utterly foul. Checking the Surfline cams, I grabbed a few representative shots from north and south of where I am…

Windy outside, but relatively clean at Steamer Lane in Santa Cruz
Gutless, tiny and empty at Trestles on a breezy winter morning
Brown water and sideshore little dribblers adds up to empty conditions on Saturday morning at California Street in Ventura

Weather Situation

A high pressure system over the Tasman Sea is slowly moving east and extending a ridge to the northern New South Wales coast. This system will promote northeast to southeasterly for the remainder of this weekend. Later Monday a southerly change enters the far southern waters, and moves to central parts during Tuesday before stalling over the Hunter coast Tuesday evening then weakening during Wednesday.

Forecast for Sunday until midnight

Winds
Northwest to northeasterly 10 to 15 knots becoming northeasterly 15 to 20 knots in the early afternoon. Winds reaching up to 25 knots offshore in the late evening.
Seas
Below 1 metre, increasing to 1 to 1.5 metres during the afternoon.
Swell
Easterly around 1 metre.
Weather
Sunny.

Monday 18 February

Strong Wind Warning for Monday for Sydney Coast

Winds
North to northeasterly 20 to 25 knots, reaching up to 30 knots offshore in the evening.
Seas
1.5 to 2.5 metres.
1st Swell
Southerly around 1 metre.
2nd Swell
Easterly around 1 metre.
Weather
Sunny.

Tuesday 19 February

Winds
Northerly 20 to 30 knots shifting southerly 15 to 25 knots during the day.
Seas
1.5 to 2.5 metres.
1st Swell
Easterly around 1 metre, tending northeasterly 1 to 1.5 metres during the morning.
2nd Swell
Southerly around 1 metre.
Weather
Becoming cloudy. 50% chance of showers. The chance of a thunderstorm in the evening.