Hello Friends,
Swell height at sea has popped up to nearly 2 metres, but yesterday’s long period energy seems to have gone away, plus it’s gone dead south. 8 second periods are not a recipe for size, and they’re too short to refract, so what swell there is seems to mostly be going past the point. There were a few folk in the water chasing the waist to maybe chest sets along the beach and another group was hanging at the point hoping for something a little smaller than that. It was a chilly 10C at RealSurf HQ before 0800 but it should be going to 19C later. And water is on 21C – still. Tide is currently heading toward a 1.37m high at 1135.
Have a good one and keep washing those hands, maintaining distance and covering your coughs!
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Weather Situation
A high pressure system centred near Adelaide currently extends a ridge into New South Wales, while a trough moves over the Tasman Sea. This high will drift east during the next couple of days, reaching the Tasman Sea by Tuesday. A cold front is forecast to skim across southeast Australia mid-week, before a new high becomes established in the region.
Forecast for Monday until midnight
Winds
Southwesterly 10 to 15 knots, reaching 20 knots offshore in the morning, turning southerly in the afternoon.
Seas
1 to 1.5 metres.
Swell
Southerly 1.5 to 2.5 metres.
Weather
Mostly sunny.
Tuesday 12 May
Winds
Variable about 10 knots becoming northerly 10 to 15 knots in the evening.
Seas
Below 1 metre.
Swell
Southerly 1 to 1.5 metres.
Weather
Mostly sunny.
Wednesday 13 May
Winds
North to northwesterly 10 to 15 knots shifting southwesterly during the day.
Seas
Around 1 metre.
Swell
Easterly below 1 metre.
Weather
Partly cloudy.
