Hello Friends,
The radar was showing a few scattered showers about – which is kind of what you expect with a forecast calling for a 90% chance of percipitation. North Head wind at North Head as of 0640 was 12-15 kts from the ESE. The MHL buoy was seeing 2 metres of east swell with periods ranging from 8-11 seconds. So, grey, onshore, very junky but sort of into the just surfable range if you are super extra keen. I reckon most would pass…
Outlook is for onshores until around Monday. With luck there will still be waves by then!
Postcards below…
Weather Situation
A strengthening high pressure system near Tasmania will slowly move east over the next several days directing east to southeasterly winds across the New South Wales waters. On the weekend, winds will slowly turn northerly as the high pressure system settles over the Tasman Sea and a trough approaches from the west.
Forecast for Friday until midnight
- Winds
- Easterly 10 to 15 knots, reaching up to 20 knots offshore early in the morning.
- Seas
- 1 to 1.5 metres, decreasing to 1 metre during the afternoon.
- Swell
- Easterly 2 metres.
- Weather
- Partly cloudy. 70% chance of showers.
Saturday 6 July
- Winds
- East to northeasterly 10 to 15 knots.
- Seas
- Below 1 metre.
- Swell
- Easterly 2 metres, decreasing to 1.5 metres around midday.
- Weather
- Partly cloudy. 40% chance of showers.
Sunday 7 July
- Winds
- North to northeasterly about 10 knots.
- Seas
- Below 1 metre.
- Swell
- Easterly 1.5 metres.
- Weather
- Partly cloudy. 70% chance of showers.
Not much surfwise in Santa Barbara, although I did get a few mal waves yesterday. Big excitement this morning when a slow and rolling earthquake got the chandeliers swinging at RealSurf’s Santa Barbara hangout. It hit out in the desert near the entrance to Death Valley National Monument, so very few folks near the epicentre. A similar size quake in the 1970s hit Silmar in the Los Angeles area where it resulted in deaths and injuries along with significant damage.
