Everyone’s talking about Cyclone Ului although we’re yet to see any real swell. While we’re all jumping up and down at the prospect of a, wave frenzy, spare a thought for our buds in Fiji who just got smashed by Cyclone Thomas. Let’s not forget that as we get swell, our fellows up the coast are about the get slammed as Ului makes landfall somewhere up the Queensland coast. For those of you who are yet to surf Cyclone swell, be respectful of it folks. When it hits it’ll start as short period swell, maybe six seconds or so. But it’ll soon draw out to twelve maybe even fourteen seconds between waves. That’s long thick swell people, which means clean up sets that are capable of standing up in deep water. It may not look any different but when you get out there it’s a whole different ball game. Hopefully we’ll get primo waves and everyone will come through it safely with plenty of stories to tell. We’ll keep you all posted on how it all pans out, In Byron Bay Today.

Hello Friends,

We seem to have some little waves coming in from the SE. Nothing dramatic mind you, but if you can have fun on knee to waist high little sets, my guess is that Dee Why will be just one of a number of options on the Northern Beaches this morning. There were a few bods in grabbing the odd slide amongst the shutdowns (and there were lots of those too).

From the look of the wave models, this is about as weak as it gets for the next 4-5 days. Not that we’re going to see a dramatic improvement, but there should be slightly bigger conditions through to about Saturday. Depending on what Ului gets up to, we could get some okay size and conditions for late Saturday into Sunday midday.

But the real action will be up north where it looks as though the swell could be truly massive. The most intense energy zone looks like ranging from about Angourie north to the Noosa region. Could be a very memorable weekend up that way!

South of there the swell will hit various pointy bits, but the overall size is likely to be smaller to quite a bit smaller as you get down toward Sydney.

Go well with your day!

TIDES: H @1000, L @1610
Sydney Coastal Waters, Broken Bay to Port Hacking and 60nm seawards:
Wednesday until midnight: Wind: Variable 5/10 knots at first, becoming NE 10/15 knots in the afternoon/evening.Sea: Less than 1 metre early, rising to 1 to 1.5 metres. Swell: E/SE about 1 metre.
Thursday: Wind: N/NW 5/10 knots at first, becoming NE 13/18 knots in the afternoon/evening.Sea: less than 1 metre early, rising to 1 to 1.5 metre. Swell: E/SE 1 to 1.5 metres.
Friday: Wind: NW/NE 10/20 knots.

Roberto