Possibilities
Hello Friends, Well, I’m back in Sydney – three weeks earlier than originally planned. Got half way through the family visit in California but decided to pull the pin as it became increasingly obvious that Coranavirus was blowing up. I didn’t want to get caught in the USA with its problematic and absurdly expensive medical […]
Saturday Surf Report
The southerly has come through all Sydney beaches now, after passing the far south side around 6.30, blowing out the 1 metre waves leftover from yesterday. It will bring up some south swell over the days ahead, but today won’t do anything for the surf. Wind is strong with gusts of 70 ks at North […]
The Goat’s Surf Forecast
The Goat’s Surf Forecast Surf forecast issued Thursday 12 March 2020: Seven day outlook for Sydney: Hmm interesting…looks like we might get a brief respite from the cool Easterlies Friday with a touch of summer noreaster making the surf seem more summery too. A Low way up north off FNQ is expected to develop into […]
Clean but tiny in showery Sydney, blowy and tiny in SoCal
Hello Friends, First light in Sydney saw weak SW wind fanning a knee to waist high SSE swell. It was 1.6 metres at sea with a 9-second period, so south exposures should be on the upper end of the scale surfwise (maybe chest high bombs?) Tide’s high right on 0800, but it’s not a big […]
Showers here and there
Hello Friends, Looks from the radar like a showery start to the day for Sydney. Happily for early risers, there seems to be some energy at south swell spots. Wind is set to swing south later, but as of 0700 it was light SW and swell was dead south at 2.5 metres at about 10 […]
Saturday Surf Report
Hi all We have two swells producing surf of variable quality on virtually all beaches at the moment… left over ENE and strengthening Southerly, the primary swell. The MHL buoy is showing around 2.6 – 4.6 metres offshore from SSE. Size on the beach is varying but is mostly in the 1-2 metre range, […]
Waist plus in Sydney but not in SoCal
Hello Friends, Looks as though you might have a few more showers today. Water quality at most Sydney beaches yesterday was rated ‘pollution likely’, so that may need to be a consideration again today. Swell was close to 3 metres at sea and nearly 9 seconds apart but also pretty straight south. Wind was SW […]
The Goat’s Surf Forecast
The Goat’s Surf Forecast Surf forecast issued Friday 6 March 2020: Seven day outlook for Sydney: Today started out holding some promise but then the wind turned South and things turned ordinary, except for the super keen ones who didn’t mind choppy conditions at places open to the south, and for people in sheltered southerly […]
Wind bumps in Sydney and So Cal
Hello Friends, Sydney was seeing 2 metre east wind swell at about 8 seconds apart this morning. Wind was WNW and light as of 0700. Waves are likely to be soft and possibly tricky to catch because of the short period, but faces at best exposures could be as much as chest high on bombs. […]
Windblown in Syd and SoCal
Hello Friends, NE wind going from early this morning so, while there is a couple metres of 7-8 second east wind bump, surface conditions away from the protected corners are not likely to be good. (See marine forecast below) Windy and small in SoCal this morning and only just into the surfable range in Santa […]