Sydney looks interesting from over here…
Hello Friends, Surf prospects this morning look promising for Sydneysiders. The MHL buoy is still down but the Bureau is calling for solid east swell and light winds early. The models are showing it hitting maximum around the middle of the day (when the tide will be low), but it looks as though the pulse […]
Postcard from Cali & a thought or two about Sunday in Sydney
Hello Friends, MHL buoy for Sydney is off the air, but looking at the other data, I’d be guessing it’s around a couple metres from the east at about 9 seconds. Combine that with the WSW winds showing on the automatic weather station data, and I’d say there’d have to be something in the way […]
Postcard from Cali + Sat in Sydney thoughts
Hello Friends, Hmmm… ESE 2m @ 10sec and light WSW winds at 0630 in Sydney… that’s not a bad combo on paper. But a look at the radar tells another story; a steady supply of showers is streaming in from the SE, so those winds down at the surface aren’t likely to blow in the […]
Postcard from Cali (& Sydney surf thoughts)
Hello Friends, Seems likely that most Sydney surfers will, like most southern California surfers, be giving it a miss today. The fates are ganging up against northern beaches waterpersons in particular, what with the onshores, rain and the dead whale at Newport potentially luring lots of sharks inshore. The Goat’s call from yesterday is lining […]
Postcard from Cali + Sydney surf thoughts
Hello Friends, Tide’s low a little after 1100 in Sydney and the wind’s supposed to be out of the SE by then. It was showing as NE at North Head when I started tapping this out at a little after 0700 – which is kinda weird since the radar’s showing a steady line of rain […]
Postcard from Cali (+ reflections on Sydney)
Hello Friends, Your humble servant has returned to the world of powerpoints and internet connections after a sojourn in the remote desert of SE California. And what do I see? 2 metres of SE swell showing on the MHL buoy off Sydney, that’s what. Period is ranging from a windswelly 8 seconds to a punchy […]
Postcard from Cali (+ Sydney surf thoughts)
Hello Friends, One of the advantages of being in California is that our daylight hours start 7 hours before Sydney at this time of year. So yours truly can get an extremely leisurely start on looking at forecast stuff whilst still being extra early with the report (it’s 0400 as I start writing). 🙂 I’d […]
Postcard: SoCal (+ Syd summary)
Hello Friends, After a quick and unusually smooth 13 hr flight, I’m jetlagged in California. I’ll try to make myself useful from afar. So, according to the latest from the MHL buoy, Sydney’s looking at around a metre of SSE swell with an average period of 10 seconds and light westerly wind as of about […]
heat is on in southern California
Hello Friends, Looks as though Sydney should have southerly conditions this morning, at 0545 there was 10-15kt of south wind and the swell was an into the useful range 2 metres at 9 seconds apart from the south. Semi-protected south corners ought to have at least something rideable. Should clear up as the day goes […]
little swell makes itself felt… in SoCal…
In the past 24 hours Santa Barbara has had about 20% of its annual rainfall. And the water really looks like it at Campus Point to the west of Santa Barbara. But there are some short period looking west swell waves getting in. They’re really slow and sluggish looking for the most part, but every […]