Hello Friends,
Lots of folks in the water by 0800 on Sunday morning at Dee Why. The crowd at the point were taking turns snagging the odd waist to maybe shoulder high sets, while along the beach it was once again super-duper shutdown city with wave faces in the chest to shoulder high range. Wind was light and from the WNW, so conditions were only slightly textured. They looked kinda crunchy and dumpy which sort of figures as the tide was running out to the low at 1055. Wind should gradually come around to the east to SE but the Bureau says it’ll remain light. Swell at sea was 1.2 metres at 10 seconds from the east.
Outlook is for swell energy to gradually decrease over the next 24 hours, but if the most hopeful forecasts have it right, there should be little waves of some sort in the mornings through to midweek.
Have a good one and maintain distance!
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Weather Situation
A high pressure system over southeast Australia extends a ridge across the southern Tasman Sea while a low pressure trough lingers off the northern New South Wales coast. This pattern is directing south to southeasterly winds across New South Wales waters which will gradually tend east to northeasterly into the new week as the high moves east to be centred over the Tasman Sea. The next cold front likely to affect New South Wales is expected during the second half of next week.
Forecast for Sunday until midnight
Winds
East to southeasterly about 10 knots.
Seas
Below 1 metre.
Swell
Easterly 1 to 1.5 metres.
Weather
Partly cloudy.
Monday 18 May
Winds
Easterly 10 to 15 knots.
Seas
Around 1 metre.
Swell
Easterly 1 to 1.5 metres.
Weather
Partly cloudy.
Tuesday 19 May
Winds
East to northeasterly 10 to 15 knots tending north to northeasterly during the morning.
Seas
Below 1 metre.
Swell
Easterly around 1 metre.
Weather
Mostly sunny.
