Hello Friends,
Another sunny morning with knee to waist high sets along the beach at Dee Why. Swell at sea is around 1.4 metres at 9 seconds from the east to NE. Tide hits a swampy 1.87 m high at 0950. Wind was NW at 0730, but it’ll gradually swing around to the NE as it picks up to 15-20 kts by this afternoon.
Outlook is for the morning sessions to be the go at most places, and as the NE regime continues, we could see a slight uptick in the size of those sets, particularly at the NE magnets. On Friday it looks as though we switch back to southerly conditions with building swell and strong south wind on Friday and Saturday. Sunday morning’s currently looking interesting and so is the front half of next week.
March continues with its historic run of well above average temperatures. We’re due to hit 29 today and 31 tomorrow. As the ABC reported: “The weekend scorcher follows a Sydney record on Friday when the water temperature off the coast reached a new all-time high of 26.75 degrees Celsius — 3C above average.” So, yeah it’s fun having tropical temp water to play in, but…
Weather Situation
A high centred over the Tasman Sea is expected to slowly drift east and maintain a ridge to the New South Wales coast through to Tuesday. A trough is forecast to affect the south coast on Tuesday, before moving north later in the week bringing a southerly change up the coast.
Forecast for Monday until midnight
- Winds
- Northeasterly 15 to 20 knots turning northerly in the late evening.
- Seas
- Below 1 metre, increasing to 1 to 1.5 metres during the afternoon.
- Swell
- Northeasterly 1.5 metres.
- Weather
- Partly cloudy.
Tuesday 12 March
- Winds
- Northerly 15 to 20 knots turning northeasterly 10 to 15 knots in the late afternoon.
- Seas
- 1 to 1.5 metres, decreasing to 1 metre during the afternoon.
- Swell
- Northeasterly 1 to 1.5 metres.
- Weather
- Mostly sunny.
Wednesday 13 March
- Winds
- South to southeasterly 10 to 15 knots becoming variable about 10 knots during the morning then becoming northeasterly 10 to 15 knots during the evening.
- Seas
- Below 1 metre.
- 1st Swell
- Southerly around 1 metre, increasing to 1 to 1.5 metres during the afternoon or evening.
- 2nd Swell
- Northeasterly 1.5 metres.
- Weather
- Partly cloudy.
