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

Grey skies and glassy little bumps

Hello Friends,

Light wind and on again off again rainy skies overhead as Wednesday started. Wind was coming lightly from the SW and swell at sea was 1.8 metres from 160° at 9 seconds, but the high tide at 0700 was enforcing fat and full conditions along the beaches. Yesterday’s head high sets at the magnets have disappeared. And right now, I’m not seeing anything terribly encouraging in the swell models. It doesn’t look like going flat at least, but it could struggle to get much above waist high. Here’s hoping the Goat spies something I’ve missed when he casts the runes tomorrow…
Have a great Wednesday!

Pretty clouds this morning
Sunny break at glassy Manly
Mid-Steyne set
Fun size sets at Manly
Spectacular skies and glassy
Caught behind at Dee Why

Weather Situation
A low pressure system lies near New Zealand, while a ridge across Victoria extends is pushing east to southeast winds across most New South Wales waters. A surface trough should drift westwards across southern and central waters today, ahead of a firming of northeasterly winds across all coastal waters Thursday morning as a high moves eastwards across the Tasman Sea. The next trough and southerly change are expected to affect southern and central parts of the coast from Thursday afternoon, extending to the northeast coast during Friday.

Forecast for Wednesday until midnight
Winds
Southerly 15 to 20 knots shifting northeasterly in the morning. Winds reaching up to 25 knots offshore in the late evening.
Seas
1 to 2 metres, decreasing to 1 metre during the morning.
1st Swell
Southerly 1.5 to 2.5 metres, decreasing to 1 to 1.5 metres during the morning.
2nd Swell
East to southeasterly around 1 metre.
Weather
Partly cloudy. 80% chance of showers.

Thursday 25 February
Strong Wind Warning for Thursday for Sydney Coast
Winds
Northeasterly 20 to 25 knots, reaching up to 30 knots offshore during the morning and early afternoon. Winds turning northerly 15 to 25 knots in the late morning.
Seas
2 to 3 metres, decreasing to 1.5 to 2 metres during the afternoon.
1st Swell
Easterly around 1 metre, tending northeasterly 1 to 1.5 metres during the morning.
2nd Swell
Southeasterly around 1 metre.
Weather
Cloudy. 95% chance of showers. The chance of a thunderstorm in the late afternoon and evening.

Friday 26 February
Winds
North to northwesterly 15 to 20 knots shifting south to southeasterly during the morning. Winds tending east to southeasterly about 10 knots in the evening.
Seas
1 to 2 metres.
Swell
Easterly 1 to 1.5 metres, tending northeasterly 1 to 2 metres during the morning.
Weather
Partly cloudy.