Hello Friends

Looks like another day of onshores and showery weather for Sydney today. Swell’s into the two metre range, but those easterlies will mean conditions are going to be dire. And Huey’s got the onshores lined up for tomorrow as well. Not a good look.

Here’s the latest from those who know…

Weather Situation from the Australian Bureau of Meterology

A slow moving trough along the northern NSW/ southern Queensland coast is expected to deepen with a relatively weak low pressure system likely to form just off the coast early Monday morning. The trough and low should gradually weaken Tuesday and Wednesday. A strong, slow moving high pressure system lies over the Tasman Sea, extending a broad ridge to southern NSW. A weak trough will move into southwest NSW tomorrow then reach the South Coast Tuesday before an active cold front approaches NSW during Wednesday.
Forecast for Monday until midnight

Winds: Easterly 10 to 20 knots decreasing to 10 to 15 knots during the afternoon. Seas: Up to 1.5 metres. Swell: Easterly about 2 metres. Isolated thunderstorms offshore this morning.
Forecast for Tuesday

Winds: East to southeasterly 5 to 10 knots. Seas: Below 1 metre. Swell: Easterly about 2 metres.
Forecast for Wednesday

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

Hardy bodyboarder snags a little section at the point shortly after sunrise.

Hello Friends,

Rained pretty heavily at RealSurf HQ last night. How’d it go in your part of the world? Was hoping for a bit better result this morning, but ocean still looks pretty lumpy and flabby still. There’s not much wind about as I write this on short and final to 0800, and what there is appears to be coming mainly from the NW.

Down at Dee Why there were just a few people in the water at sunrise time. The wave quality looked pretty ho-hum sadly. There were little sections every now and then, but the energy levels were/are not impressive. One of those days when you could get in, but not one of those days when you’d kick yourself for not getting in.

Outlook is for the size setting to stay right about where it is now for another day or so before declining away to flat by next weekend. Today should feature frequent sunny breaks and light winds inland. Along the beaches the NW could pick up a bit more, but it’s looking pretty good on that front, so with luck it’ll clean up too. Should be a balmy 19 degrees as well.

On other matters, your correspondent spent a fair amount of time twiddling and fiddling with the site over the weekend. I’ve changed the site search system over to one that uses google, so you can now search both the net in general and for stuff on RealSurf. I’ve also been making a few minor adjustments to our free surf classifieds and in so doing realised that we’d kept that particular light under a bushel lately. So, here’s a call to anyone with surf gear they want to turn into cash: why not post it on our surf classifieds today? Listing is free and your ads can run for up to 30 days.

Okay enough outta me for now. Go well with your day!

Sydney Coastal Waters, Broken Bay to Port Hacking and 60nm seawards:
Strong Wind Warning.
Monday until midnight: Wind: NW/N 15/20 knots inshore, grading to N/NE 25/33 knots offshore, easing to 10/15 knots inshore and 15/20 knots offshore during the afternoon.Sea: 1 to 2 metres inshore, 2 to 3 metres offshore until late afternoon. Swell: NE 2 to 3 metres. Isolated thunderstorms.
Tuesday: Wind: NW/NE 5/15 knots.Sea: to 1 metre.Swell: NE 2 to 3 metres.
Wednesday: Wind: N/NW 10/20 knots.

Burgery looking but not flat and all but empty.

Hello Friends,

Climbed aloft to the crow’s nest for one last view of the beach on this winter solstice day. It got steadily gloomier this afternoon, so the light levels were getting pretty low for taking pictures. I dialled up the sensitivity to ISO 800 and decreased the shutter speed to a barely adequate 1/200 of a sec. Even so, I had to boost the exposure during editing to get anything; hence the very grainy result below.

Huey left the swell settings in place across the day, but tomorrow the Bureau tells us that we could see a little increase tomorrow from the E/NE. Plus the wind is set to be N-NW inshore during the morning. Tuesday looks quite promising: light N wind and a couple metres or so of ENE swell with generally sunny conditions…

Light fades on a few catchable ones in the corner.

There were a reasonable number of people in the water for a Sunday evening (often one of the least crowded times of day on a weekend), and the waves seemed to have enough push to get some moves happening. Personally I’d call the conditions about 4/10, but maybe if I’d been in the water, I’d have set the rating a little higher! Funny how that seems to work.

Speaking of work, you’ll notice that there’s now a search field at the bottom of the reports column. I went along to a Google seminar for webmasters last week and one of the things we learned is that folks often want to go to a search after they’ve read something. Anyway, thought I’d see if RealSurf visitors found it handy…

On another front, I’ve also put in a link at the top of the page to our free surf classifieds. If you have any surf related gear you want to offload for a bit of coin, why not list it where a lot of surfers will see it?

You could jag a few if you were patient.

Stumbled through the wheelhouse door late this morning, as is my wont on a Sunday. Climbed aloft for a quick look at the unfolding day. Small crowd is hanging around at the southern end of the Dee Why longy stretch. A few are over at the point. Conditions are sorta lumpy and disorganised looking, but at 0930 there wasn’t too much wind about. Swell settings are essentially unchanged in Sydney since yesterday. Energy is coming from the east at a couple metres and about 8-9 seconds apart. Wind is a light northerly.

Not super crowded at the Dee Why end when I grabbed the snap. Seemed to be quite a wait for the sets though. A few dribbling through at the point too, but I reckon you’ll want to be keen to chase those.

There should be a few options on offer this morning. Once the N-NE wind builds up, they’ll contract to the semi protected north corners. Tide’s dropping and will hit low at 1216 in Sydney.

Not too many surf report tweets this morning, but there was one from a T-shirt artist in in Santa Monica who says: “Malibu 1-2 feet.” He tweets at twitter.com/aSURFmoment

Sydney Coastal Waters, Broken Bay to Port Hacking and 60nm seawards:
Strong Wind Warning.
Sunday until midnight: Wind: N/NE 15/20 knots, reaching 20/25 knots at times, possibly 25/30 knots offshore.Sea: 1.5 to 2.5 metres, rising to 3 metres offshore. Swell: E/NE 1.5 to 2.5 metres. Isolated thunderstorms.
Monday: Wind: N/NW 10/20 knots inshore, grading to N/NE 20/30 knots offshore.Sea: 1 to 2 metres inshore rising to 2 to 3 metres offshore. Swell: E/NE 2 to 3 metres.
Tuesday: Wind: NW 05/15 knots.

If only the wind were offshore...

Hello Friends,

Comparatively mild as the Saturday kicked off in Sydney, but as anticipated, the NE’r was already into the 15-20 kt range at first light. If you were just going by the MHL buoy data, it might look like there’d be something happening. After all, it’s showing about two metres from the east at a touch under 8 seconds. But, I have to tell you, it’s very junky and messy anywhere with exposure to the wind – and that will be pretty much everywhere.

Low tide is at 1124

Sydney Coastal Waters, Broken Bay to Port Hacking and 60nm seawards:
Saturday until midnight: Wind: NE 15/20 knots, reaching 20/25 knots offshore at times.Sea: 1.5 to 2.5 metres.Swell: E 1.5 to 2 metres Isolated thunderstorms.
Sunday: Wind: N/NE 15/20 knots, increasing to 20/30 knots during the day.Sea: 1.5 to 2 metres, rising to 2 to 3 metres.Swell: E/NE 2 to 3 metres. Isolated thunderstorms.
Monday: Wind: N/NW 10/20 knots inshore, grading to N/NE 20/30 knots offshore.

Might be worth a cruise on a mal on the inside.

Mid-morning, still glassy, and quite surfable.

Hello Friends,

Running very, very late this morning… apologies. Surf situation along the northern beaches continues along much the same lines as yesterday, ie waves in the waist to chest high range with the odd bigger one. Not much of any wind as of 1000, but it is due to swing to the NE this afternoon.

Swell is now out of the east at a couple metres with a power setting of 8 seconds. What this means for Dee Why is that there are some amusing looking things folding over and running both directions in the general vicinity of where the fabled super peak has been for the past month or so. There were a couple folks at the point, but it seemed pretty weak and small. East swell and the point really don’t get along all that well together.

Outlook remains for the energy levels to gradually fade as we go into the weekend and then to be pretty small and weak through Sunday. The models are showing a small, but longer period south to SE pulse filling in Monday morning. With luck that will translate into waves of similar size to this morning’s conditions.

Next tide is a low at 1127.

Go well one and all!

Sydney Coastal Waters, Broken Bay to Port Hacking and 60nm seawards:
Thursday until midnight: Wind: N/NE 10/15 knots. NW about 5 knots early inshore. Sea: about 1 metre. Swell: NE 1.5 to 2 metres. Possible thunderstorms.
Friday: Wind: W/SW 10/15 knots, reaching 15/20 knots in the evening.Sea: 1 to 1.5 metres, rising to 1.5 to 2 metres in the evening. Swell: NE about 1.5 metres.
Saturday: Wind: W/SW 10/15 knots.

After a morning doing office-y stuff, I felt the need to get wet, so I wandered back to Curly to see what was what. Pretty busy it has to be said, but not a huge problem because there were peaks all over the place. Mostly they were fairly flabby and weak, but as has been the case for some time now, if you get one that focuses, there can be moments of push to be had. The NE’r has chilled the water down a bit I reckon, but it wasn’t exactly cold.

I imagine the mid to north corners will be worth the effort if you feel like getting a little something for the late. I’m giving it 4/10.

Lunchtime session at Curly

Sighted at Curl Curl: Red-whiskered Bulbul (Pycnonotus jocosus)

The day gets started with a few rideable ones at Dee Why beach.

Hello Friends,

Looks like Sydney’s in for a fine day and there should be a few waves to go with the sunny skies. Dee Why beach was witnessing the odd chest high set as we headed toward high tide at around 0745.  Low will be a 0.33 at about 1417.  Wind is set to be light from the N-NW at 10-15 kts ahead of a weak S-SE change this afternoon. The MHL buoy is showing a couple metres of east windswell at about 8 seconds apart, but there is still some 11 sec period component in the mix. So not great, but not hopeless either.

Those SE winds are due to stick around for the next couple days and it doesn’t seem as though we can expect anything much in the way of swell beyond the usual little wind waves. So, not going flat, but not going off either is the general outlook.

I’m planning to do a bit of a wander around to see what else is happening, so more later this morning…

Go well!