Hello Friends,
23 degree water and a light breeze slightly texturing a metre or so of 8 second NE wind swell as Saturday got started. I’d call it knee to waist with the very rare chest-ish set at the best locations. The tide was coming in to a very swampy 2 metre deep high tide at 1030, so that, and the short period, meant waves were fairly weak and small. Even so, you could definitely catch them, and for a Saturday morning it wasn’t looking super busy as of 0645 when I grabbed the snaps below.
We’re headed to a high of 30 later, by which time the summer NE’r will be eliminating many options. So get amongst it early to avoid disappointment.
Tomorrow we’ll be back to grey skies, the odd sprinkle and southerly wind from the get-go. Swell should be around the same intensity as today, but options will be severely limited. On Monday the rain could be reasonably steady, the wind’ll be onshore from the SE to east and pushing up a local ESE windswell into the 2+ metre range at sea. Very few choices again. Tuesday’s looking like kinda the same but maybe less rainy. On Wednesday it looks like we could have a nice morning with some residual east swell, sunny skies and light breezes for the early… On current reckoning, Huey is going to flick the switch back to grey and southerly for a Thr-Fri, but with some 2+ metre, 10-sec swell to maybe light up the protected south ends… maybe…
Go well with your Saturday!
Weather Situation
A weak ridge extending from a high pressure system near New Zealand is directing southeast to northeasterly winds along the coast, tending north to northeasterly along the southern coast today ahead of a cold front east of Tasmania. This front links with a low pressure trough over the New South Wales interior, bringing a late southerly change to the southern coast today, strengthening and extending to the remainder of the coast as a south to southeasterly on Sunday.
Forecast for Saturday until midnight
- Winds
- North to northeasterly 10 to 15 knots turning easterly in the evening.
- Seas
- Below 1 metre.
- Swell
- Easterly 1 to 1.5 metres.
- Weather
- Mostly sunny.
Sunday 14 January
- Winds
- Variable about 10 knots becoming southerly 15 to 20 knots early in the morning then tending southeasterly in the early afternoon.
- Seas
- Below 1 metre, increasing to 1 to 1.5 metres during the morning.
- 1st Swell
- Easterly 1 to 1.5 metres, decreasing to around 1 metre during the morning.
- 2nd Swell
- Southerly around 1 metre.
- Weather
- Partly cloudy. 80% chance of showers. The chance of a thunderstorm inshore.
Monday 15 January
- Winds
- Southeasterly 20 to 30 knots turning easterly 15 to 20 knots during the evening.
- Seas
- 1.5 to 2.5 metres.
- 1st Swell
- Southeasterly 1.5 metres, increasing to 1.5 to 2 metres during the morning.
- 2nd Swell
- Southerly around 1 metre.
- Weather
- Cloudy. 90% chance of showers
