Hello Friends,

One of those mornings when I don’t mind the prospect of a coffee and desk work so much. 20-30 kts of SSE wind, lowering grey skies and a 2 metre SE swell with a power setting of only 6 seconds. As this morning’s picture shows, it was not an attractive scene where Dee Why was concerned. Given the look of the sea, I’d be very surprised if there was anywhere with much of a wave this morning. Despite all the wind, there’s just not much energy in the ocean.

From the shape of the forecast data, it would seem that we’re in for another week of mainly southerly conditions. The swell should push up a bit but on current reckoning, it won’t be a dramatic boost above the present conditions – at least not for the next few days. Some interpretations of the WAM data are still showing a biggish pulse about Monday. They were projecting it yesterday as well, so maybe we’ll get lucky.

Meanwhile, down at Bells, the forecast is not looking too flash for waves across the period of the contest. I reckon they might want to move it to Johanna…

Go well with your day, wherever you may be!

Tides: H @1000, L @1600
Sydney Coastal Waters, Broken Bay to Port Hacking and 60nm seawards:
Gale Warning.
Wednesday until midnight: Wind: SW/SE 25/33 knots, grading to 30/40 knots offshore. Sea: 2.5 to 3.5 metres, rising to 4 to 5 metres offshore.Swell: SE about 1.5 metres. Thunderstorms.
Thursday: Wind: S/SW 25/33 knots, grading to 30/40 knots offshore.Sea: 2.5 to 3.5 metres, rising to 4 to 5 metres offshore.Swell: S/SE about 2 metres.
Friday: Wind: S/SW 20/30 knots, grading 30/40 knots offshore early.

Hello Friends,

Not too flash out there this morning. SSE wind is pushing along at a surf destroying 20-30 knots. The outlook is for it to slack off this afternoon and to go more SE, so who knows, maybe some of the south corners will come into play. But you’d have to say it’s not exactly looking like being all time. Swell at sea off Sydney is averaging around the 3 metre mark from the south. It’s coming in at around 8 seconds apart, so there isn’t a lot of power. Waves are messy and unattractive – to put it mildly – and as a consequence, I wasn’t surprised not to see anyone in the water.

I’m intrigued to see the Eden buoy showing an average period of around 11 seconds. There’s no guarantee we’ll see that make its way this far north, but the latest run of the wave forecast models is calling for our average period to jump into a similar range this afternoon. Should that happen, we might get a little more energy getting into the corners.

The Bureau says we’re set to have SE wind into Saturday, so the best hope for a wave will probably be the early (when the tide, sadly, is full).

Ah well, Huey will come to the party eventually, so keep on smilin’ and go well with today’s adventures.

TIDES: H @0620, L @1300
Sydney Coastal Waters, Broken Bay to Port Hacking and 60nm seawards:
Strong Wind Warning.
Thursday until midnight: Wind: S/SE 20/30 knots, easing to SE 15/20 knots in the afternoon. Sea: 2 to 3 metres, abating to 1.5 to 2 metres in the afternoon. Swell: S increasing to 2 to 3 metres.
Friday: Wind: S/SE 15/20 knots. Sea: 1 to 2 metres. Swell: S/SE 1.5 to 2.5 metres.
Saturday: Wind: SE 10/20 knots.