Over the horizon: maybe a few little ones about early
Hello Friends, Your correspondent has returned from the desert to the coast (of California that is) and is therefore back to net access. So, herewith an early morning wrap for Tuesday in Sydney… The Bureau says 27 and sunny on the weather front with light and variable winds early, going around to the northern quarters […]
Friday early summary
Hello Friends, As of 0500 wind was out of the north to WNW along Sydney’s coast. The MHL buoy is still broken, so the nearest data is from way down at Batemans Bay where swell is showing at a touch under a metre at 10 seconds or so from the ENE. So that says to […]
Postcard from Cali: waves over here but…
Hello Friends, There’s a scrappy little NW swell in southern California, but by the time I got near the beach it was pretty much blown out. Size-wise it’s about the same as Sydney – ie waist high most places with the odd bigger one. Malibu was around the knee high mark and not at all […]
Postcard from Cali & a few thoughts on Sydney surf prospects
Hello Friends, Sorry about the silence from your humble servant. I’m back on the other side of the planet again on family business. Looks like you’ve had nice little waves in Sydney, but I’m thinking from the look of the WRL cam at south Narra, it’s not going to be too red hot today for […]
Diabolical
Hello Friends, You wouldn’t want to bother with a wave today. There’s a heap of east swell, but the wind is blasting onshore from the ESE and is only expected to pick up later. Throw in the odd raging squall and torrential downpour and you have a recipe for playing inside all day. As the […]
Still tiny but a hint of improvement… maybe…
Hello Friends, Swell has perked ever so slightly this morning. But it’s out of the south at only about a metre, so you’ll do well to pick up something in the waist high range at exposed spots. Looked to be a long wait for really fairly feeble waves. There were only three people in the […]
So beautiful, so flat
Hello Friends, Sydney surfers will need every gram of keen-ness they can muster today. Really, being realistic, you could go for a long paddle 10 metres off the beach without getting your hair wet at most places today. It’s that small. According to the MHL buoy data, the swell is coming from the […]
Fading in the heavy rain
Hello Friends, Visibility from the RealSurf crow’s nest is maybe 500 metres as I write this around 0900, so no pictures from me. yet. The MHL buoy is showing about two metres of 8 second period SE swell. That’s about the same size as yesterday for the swell, but the period is now 20% shorter […]
Autumn is coming in
Hello Friends, We have a pretty similar set up to yesterday morning, ie swell out of the east and light winds delivering smooth surface conditions on a still dropping tide. Being a Saturday, lots of folk were in the water from first light. With wave faces ranging from waist high on the […]
Sunny Saturday small surf (very small)
Hello Friends, Very little energy around this morning but not quite flat. Almost… but not quite. Dee Why and south Narrabeen were both showing about the same size – which was maybe knee high if you were being generous. Outlook is for only a slight chance of an improvement today – and that will be […]