Hello Friends,

Not much of interest going on at Dee Why this morning. The primary swell direction has gone around to the SE. It’s about a metre on average out at sea and averaging 8 seconds apart. High tide at 1030 isn’t contributing anything to the surf prospects. Wind was light early, but the Bureau tells us that it will gradually build up from the south and be going pretty hard tomorrow morning.

All that southerly activity should push up some wind swell tomorrow, but I’d be astounded if there was a quality wave anywhere. Might be a prospect on Tuesday morning though because the forecast says the wind should weaken from around midday on Monday. I’m also liking the look of some of the longer range predictions for late in the week when we just might get a long period south pulse. Might be an idea to tentatively secure a Friday morning surf slot in your schedule…

Have yourself a great Sunday!

Forecast for Sunday until midnight

Winds

South to southwesterly 5 to 10 knots then tending south to southeasterly around midday. Winds becoming southerly 10 to 20 knots by early evening. .

Seas

Below 1 metre.

Swell

Northeasterly 1 metre.

Weather

Isolated thunderstorms offshore from the late morning until late afternoon.

Monday 31 October

Winds

Southerly 20 to 25 knots decreasing to 10 to 20 knots around midday then tending south to southeasterly 10 to 15 knots by early evening.

Seas

Up to 2 metres.

Swell

Easterly 0.5 to 1.5 metres tending southerly 1.5 metres late in the evening.

Hello Friends,

Well, there may be a metre of SSE swell out at sea, but with an average period of around 8 seconds, there’s nothing much showing. No bods were in the water at Dee Why that I could see when I checked it out this morning. There were some people at North Narrabeen for some reason that wasn’t instantly obvious. I’d say the biggest sets were struggling to get into the waist high range.

Latest run of the models is less than inspiring. Basically it looks like small, short period mainly south swell across the next week for the Sydney region. Indeed, it seems that the whole east coast faces this baleful regime of smallness. I hope this doesn’t mean that spring is arriving early…

There are still some big systems in the southern ocean, but they just aren’t getting to us. You’d have a better chance across the Tasman. Mahia looks good Wed-Thr…

Oh well, keep on smilin’!

Sydney Closed Waters, Pittwater, Port Jackson and Botany Bay:
Monday until midnight: Wind:West to southwesterly 5 to 10 knots tending south to southwesterly during the morning then tending south to southeasterly around midday. Winds light later in the evening. Waters:Smooth.
Tuesday: Wind:Light winds tending east to northeasterly up to 10 knots later in the evening. Waters:Smooth.
Wednesday: Wind: Light winds tending east to northeasterly up to 10 knots during the afternoon then tending north to northeasterly during the evening.

Hello Friends,

I’d hoped for better this morning. But it was not to be. The forecast last night was calling for light NW breezes to begin with, but instead we have a junk-inducing NE’r. Swell, as expected, has further weakened overnight and is now around the metre mark out at sea with an average period of 8 seconds. However, it’s coming from the SE and there is still some 12 sec component showing in the mix, so you just might see the odd waist high plus set at perfectly exposed stretches.

Dee Why, as the picture below illustrates, is junky and struggling to produce anything much above knee high for the hardy crew in the water at Kiddies.

The not so great news is that we’re heading into a pretty ordinary run of conditions across the next week. The models are all showing very small, short period generally easterly windswell conditions through about Tuesday. Then the swell direction swings southerly but the periods are generally in the sub 8 sec range (possible little long period pulse late Tues afternoon) through about Thursday, when the long range forecast calls for us to see a return to short period E-NE windswell.

The WAMs are showing a reasonable level of activity out in the Tasman toward the end of the week, but the fetch is pointed away from us. Could be fun over in NZ…

Not the most exciting conditions at Dee Why to start the day.

Sydney Coastal Waters, Broken Bay to Port Hacking and 60nm seawards:
Saturday until midnight: Wind: NE 10/15 knots, increasing to 15/20 knots in the afternoon.Sea: 1 to 1.5 metres, rising to 1.5 to 2 metres. Swell: SE 1 to 1.5 metres.
Sunday: Wind: N/NE 15/20 knots, increasing to 20/25 knots in the afternoon.Sea: 1.5 to 2 metres, rising to 2 to 2.5 metres. Swell: NE 1 to 1.5 metres.
Monday: Wind: SE/NE 5/15 knots.

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