Hello Friends,
A partly cloudy, SSE day along the beaches with a weak little south bump in the corners and bigger, lumpier stuff along the exposed, south-angled stretches. Out at sea the waverider buoys at Botany and off the Northern beaches were both detecting a couple of metres of 6-7 sec SSE wind swell. Tide hit low at 0955 and will be back to the slight high at 1540. The weather call is for a possible morning shower and a standard-issue summer high of 25.
I’m not too excited about the near term surf prospects. It looks like today’s marginal surf settings are more or less likely to prevail through the weekend and beyond. And so too does the partly cloudy, periodically showery weather.
Still, the water’s nice and warm and great for messing about in, even if the wave quality is sub-par.
Go well one and all!
Weather Situation
A southerly change is moving along the NSW coast with a ridge of high pressure extending along the coast from a high south of the continent. The high will move east over the next few days and will be centred over the Tasman Sea on the weekend. South to southeast winds will return to the northeast over the weekend and are expected to freshen ahead of a trough of low pressure moving through the inland.
Forecast for Friday until midnight
- Winds
- Southeasterly 15 to 25 knots.
- Seas
- 1.5 to 2 metres, decreasing to 1 to 1.5 metres around midday.
- Swell
- Southerly 1 to 1.5 metres.
- Weather
- Partly cloudy.
Saturday 6 January
- Winds
- Southeasterly 10 to 15 knots turning east to northeasterly during the afternoon and evening.
- Seas
- Around 1 metre.
- Swell
- Southeasterly 1.5 metres.
- Weather
- Cloudy.
Sunday 7 January
- Winds
- Northeasterly 15 to 25 knots increasing to 20 to 30 knots during the evening.
- Seas
- Around 1 metre, increasing to 1.5 to 2 metres during the afternoon or evening.
- Swell
- South to southeasterly around 1 metre.
- Weather
- Partly cloudy.
