Hello Friends

Okay, it wasn’t perfect or anything, but at least there was SE windswell all day and the wind didn’t get too out of hand. I got a few waves at Dee Why point, but given the swell direction, it was far from the only place with something worth the effort. Mostly it was in the waist to chest high range, but every now and then something closer to head high turned up to keep things interesting.

The SE windswell didn’t vary much through the day. Basically it stayed around the two metre mark out at sea with an average period of about 8-9sec. Outlook si for the energy levels to weaken a little overnight, but with luck tomorrow will still offer a few options for the keen. First tide of the day will a high at about 0720, the wind should be out of the NE and once again we have a high likelihood of showers at some point during the day.

Go well!

Weather Situation

A high near New Zealand extends a ridge along the New South Wales coast. A low pressure trough lies over the NSW inland and a high is in the western Bight. These systems are moving eastwards. The high is expected to move to the southeast of Tasmania by late Friday. This will bring a weak southerly change along the New South southern and central coasts Thursday through Friday.

Forecast for Wednesday until midnight

Winds: Northeasterly 15 to 20 knots. Seas: 1 to 1.5 metres. Swell: Easterly 2 metres.

Forecast for Thursday

Winds: North to northeasterly 15 to 20 knots. Seas: 1 to 1.5 metres. Swell: Easterly about 2 metres. Isolated thunderstorms.

Forecast for Friday

Winds: North to northeasterly 10 to 15 knots, ahead of an early southerly change of up to 20 knots. Winds tending south to southeasterly up to 15 knots during the afternoon. Seas: Below 1 metre increasing up to 1.5 metres during the morning then decreasing to below 1 metre later in the evening. Swell: Easterly 1 to 2 metres.

Forecast for Saturday

Winds: North to northeasterly 10 to 15 knots increasing to 15 to 25 knots during the afternoon. Seas: Below 1 metre increasing to 1 to 1.5 metres during the morning then increasing to 1.5 to 2 metres during the evening. Swell: Easterly 1.5 metres.

Hello Friends,

Another la nina morning in Sydney, ie grey skies and 90% chance of a shower. As foretold by the models, the swell has bumped up a bit and as Wednesday got started it was a couple metres at sea from the SE with an average period of around 8 seconds. I needed to wait awhile to get this morning’s snap of Dee Why point because the set waves were pretty few and far between. It looks to me like one of those mornings when you hang around for one to two wave sets. Still, at least there’s a little something going on.

It was glassy for the early, but the tide was right on high when I checked it out for the first time. The Bureau says the wind will work around to the NE later and get into the 15-20 kt range. Look to the north corners…

The swell should stick around at more or less the current energy levels this morning before maybe fading a touch toward dark. The good news is that it shouldn’t drop into the realms of utter hopelessness across the next few days. As well, the long range models this morning are showing a reasonably intense system coming around Tasmania and pushing up the east coast early next week. At this stage it looks like maybe slinging us some windy, short period but potentially interesting size swell Tue-Wed. However, as we model watchers know, these forecasts have a way of fading in the straight, so I’m not whooping about it just yet.

Have yourself a great day!

TIDES: H @0720, L @1400

Weather Situation

A high east of Tasmania is moving slowly east, extending a ridge along the New South Wales coast. The approach of a cold front from the Southern Ocean is likely to bring a southerly change to much of the coast on Thursday through Friday.
Forecast for Wednesday until midnight

Winds: East to northeasterly 5 to 10 knots becoming northeasterly up to 15 knots around midday then increasing to 15 to 20 knots by early evening. Seas: Below 1 metre increasing to 1.5 metres later in the evening. Swell: Easterly 2 metres.
Forecast for Thursday

Winds: North to northeasterly 15 to 20 knots. Seas: 1 to 1.5 metres. Swell: Easterly about 2 metres. Isolated thunderstorms until evening.
Forecast for Friday

Winds: Northerly 10 to 20 knots tending northwest to southwesterly up to 15 knots during the morning then tending southeasterly during the afternoon. Winds tending east to northeasterly up to 15 knots during the evening. Seas: Below 1 metre. Swell: Easterly 1 to 2 metres.

Hello Friends,

Clean surface conditions this morning as yesterday’s south pulse backs off along Sydney’s beaches. If your favourite stretch of sand doesn’t like straight south, there’s no need to bother. If it does, you’re looking at mostly waist high with the odd sneaker into the chest high range. The trendlines are pointing downward, so I think we can expect the lulls to get longer and the sets to get smaller through the day.  With luck though it shouldn’t die away to nothing at the exposed spots.

The wind is supposed to be light this morning and only in the 10-15kt range from NE later.

Next tide is a moderate high at about 1330, with the low hitting just before dark at 1940.

I got out and about with a camera yesterday, so I’ll have a few snaps to share later…

Finally, Tim Bonython has made another couple pairs of tix available to his Australian Surf Movie Festival shows at the Harbord Diggers on Friday and at Palmy RSL on Saturday. If you’d like a chance to get a pair to either show, just use the feedback link top right on the home page and send me the name of you and your friend along with a mobile number for me to confirm back.

Go well with your day!

Weather Situation

A strong high pressure system to the east of Tasmania maintains a ridge northwards along the New South Wales coast. The high is forecast to move over New Zealand by Friday. The next cold front is expected to approach from the southwest, and is expected to bring the next southerly change to southern and central parts of the coast during Saturday.

Forecast for Thursday until midnight

Winds: East to northeasterly 5 to 10 knots becoming northeasterly 10 to 15 knots during the afternoon then increasing to 15 to 20 knots later in the evening. Seas: Below 1 metre increasing to 1 to 1.5 metres later in the evening. Swell: Southerly about 1.5 metres.

Forecast for Friday

Winds: North to northeasterly 15 to 20 knots increasing to 20 to 25 knots by early evening. Seas: 1.5 to 2 metres. Swell: Southerly 1 metre tending easterly about 1 metre during the evening.

Forecast for Saturday

Winds: Northerly 10 to 20 knots, reaching 25 knots at times, tending south to southwesterly 10 to 20 knots during the morning then tending south to southeasterly 10 to 15 knots during the evening. Seas: Up to 2 metres. Swell: Easterly about 1.5 metres. The chance of thunderstorms from midday.

Hello Friends,

Good to see some sunshine this morning along with a more easterly swell direction. Again, it’s not big, but some peaks are getting into the chest high range at optimally exposed locations. I had to wait around to grab the snaps, so expect to have a bit of a chat between the little sets. Wind wasn’t a factor for the early risers, but the Bureau says it’ll go around to the NE and be a summery 15-20 kts this afternoon.

Low tide is at 0850 and the high is at 1445. Swell is out of the east at about 1.5 metres, with a period of just over 8 seconds.

Get out there and have a good time if you can!

Weather Situation

A high pressure system over the southern Tasman Sea will remain there through the week, with a ridge extending to the mid-north coast of New South Wales. A weak southerly change is expected to affect the southern New South Wales coast on Thursday.

Forecast for Wednesday until midnight

Winds: North to northeasterly 5 to 15 knots becoming northeasterly 15 to 20 knots by early evening. Seas: Below 1 metre increasing to 1.5 metres later in the evening. Swell: Southerly 1 metre.

Forecast for Thursday

Winds: North to northeasterly 10 to 15 knots becoming northeasterly 15 to 20 knots by early evening. Seas: Up to 1.5 metres. Swell: Southeasterly about 1 metre tending easterly from midday.

Forecast for Friday

Winds: Northerly 10 to 15 knots tending north to northeasterly 15 to 20 knots during the afternoon. Seas: 1 to 1.5 metres increasing to 1.5 to 2 metres during the evening. Swell: Easterly 1 metre.

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Hello Friends,

Beautiful Saturday morning in Sydney and as an extra bonus, we have a few small SSE waves too. Nothing big, but the period was a reasonable 11 seconds or so and that means the occasional chest high set turning up at spots such as Dee Why that like the swell direction. The models say that the swell should pick up a little as the day goes along, so with luck, by lunch there could be the odd head high bomb at the exposed spots.

Outlook is for the swell to fade overnight and leave us only a few minor scraps tomorrow. It then looks as though next week will be pretty small to flat until the next pulse comes in around Wednesday.

So get out and enjoy your Saturday!

Tides: H @0900, L @1515

Weather Situation from the BoM

A broad high pressure ridge lies across the northern Tasman Sea, while another high lies to the west of New South wales. A trough of low pressure will bring a weak southerly change to much of the New South Wales coast later Saturday or Sunday before the ridge becomes dominant once again. Another trough looks like to bring a southerly change to region Tuesday and Wednesday.

Forecast for Saturday until midnight
Winds: Northwesterly 10 to 15 knots increasing to 10 to 20 knots during the morning then tending northwest to southwesterly up to 15 knots around midday. Seas: Up to 1.5 metres. Swell: Southerly 2 metres.

Forecast for Sunday
Winds: Southeasterly 5 to 15 knots. Seas: Below 1 metre. Swell: Southerly about 2 metres decreasing to 1 metre late in the evening.

Forecast for Monday
Winds: North to northwesterly 10 to 15 knots. Seas: Below 1 metre. Swell: Easterly 1 metre.

Hello Friends,

Could be worth the effort to get yourself to a south swell spot this morning in Sydney as we still have some SSE energy around the place. There are light winds from the SW on tap this morning and the forecast is for it to drop off toward low tide at lunch time.

Swell at sea is just below the 2 metre mark with an average period of close to 10 seconds.

The latest run of the models suggests that we’ll have similar conditions over the next three days.

Enjoy!

TIDE: H @0630 L 1200
Sydney Coastal Waters, Broken Bay to Port Hacking and 60nm seawards:
Sunday until midnight: Wind: Southwesterly 5 to 10 knots becoming light around midday then tending north to northeasterly up to 10 knots during the afternoon.Sea: Below 1 metre.Swell: Southerly about 2 metres.
Monday: Wind: North to northwesterly 5 to 10 knots tending north to northeasterly 10 to 15 knots during the afternoon.Sea: Below 1 metre.Swell: Southeasterly 1.5 metres.
Tuesday: Wind: Northerly 5 to 10 knots increasing to up to 30 knots during the morning then decreasing to about 15 knots during the evening.

couple of young RealSurf fans

Hello evening visitors!

Finally have added a new surf spot to the life list – Elouera. PB and I made a jaunt down to the lovely shire to see what was doing. He’s been down there a bit lately so was able to give me the tour. We checked Elouera and the Wall first. Little SE swell of maybe 1.5m at around 8-9 seconds apart was coming in and the wind was light offshore. Plus it was sunny and comparatively mild. Not super crowded either. In fact, you’d have to say it was uncrowded by Sydney standards. Went down to look at Cronulla point, Shark Island and Sandshoes too, but ended up returning to the long waist to chest high lines of Elouera. Later when we got out we talked to a guy who lives just around the corner from the beach who assured us we’d just got very lucky. I’ll take it! Thanks Huey.

A quick look at the charts tonight makes me think that tomorrow will probably smaller again that at close of play today. From the current run of the WAMs, it seems that we’re in for declining conditions across the next couple days, before the possible return of surfable south swell energy sometime late Friday. It’s not too bad an outlook overall with the models suggesting something more or less across the next 7 days in the Sydney region. Hope Huey doesn’t change his mind!

Go well and catchya again tomorrow.

After holding off until around 1300, the southerly started to fill in along Sydney’s beaches. As the day ends, the swell is still around the two metre mark at sea with an average period of 9 seconds. It’s SE and we’re getting some okay size sets every now and then thanks to some rogue 11 second period stuff. According to the Bureau the energy should stick around overnight and with luck tomorrow will be something of a repeat of today with light winds for the early and a couple metres of 8-9 sec S-SE swell.

I got in the water at the point this morning and as a consequence will have some water snaps to post as a gallery later. Set waves were kinda fun, but we had to wait around a bit and there was a pretty fair crowd on it. I put this down to the fact that Dee Why was probably about the only reasonable wave from Manly to Mona Vale. Anyway, after I got out I did a bit more shooting with a Canon 5D MkII and the 100-400mm lens that I have on test at the moment. A real nice bit of kit, but then it’d want to be for the $5k price tag. When I get the pic files all processed, I’ll load them to a gallery.

Hope you’ve had a great week and are looking forward to a top old weekend!

Sydney Coastal Waters, Broken Bay to Port Hacking and 60nm seawards:
Friday until midnight: Wind: Southerly 10 to 20 knots, decreasing to 10 to 15 knots later.Sea: Up to 1.5 metres.Swell: Southeasterly 2 metres.
Saturday: Wind: Southerly 10 to 15 knots tending south to southwesterly up to 10 knots during the morning then tending south to southeasterly by early evening.Sea: Below 1 metre.Swell: Southeasterly about 2 metres.
Sunday: Wind: West to southwesterly 5 to 10 knots becoming southwesterly 10 to 15 knots later in the evening.
Monday: Wind: South to southwesterly 10 to 15 knots tending west to southwesterly up to 10 knots during the afternoon then tending west to northwesterly during the evening.