Hello Friends,
Sunny, mild and altogether beautiful spring weather in Sydney this morning. The only problem from a surf perspective is that there’s really not much of anything resembling a surfable wave at Dee Why this morning. Judging from PB’s snaps of the Narra stretch, it’s not appreciably better at stretches of beach with good exposure to the prevailing easterly windswell direction. The MHL buoy is showing a period of 7 seconds, so if you’re patient and keen, I bet you’d get the occasional catchable bigger one (by bigger, I mean waist high).
From the look of the models, we’re not in for much of anything over the next week along our stretch of the east coast. We’re facing a week-long run of small (1 metre or less), short period and generally east to NE windswell.
I’d say it’ll be good for a swim maybe, a wander along the beach possibly, or if you haven’t yet had a go, an opportunity to mess about with a SUP.
The southerly swell generating systems are being pushed well to the south of us by the slow moving high pressure areas that typically appear this time of year. As well, those lows are generally weaker and less extensive, so it can be a long time between drinks for south swell spots. It’s still too early for the tropics to get going either, so we’re stuck with these long stretches of weak, locally generated windswell.
There doesn’t seem to be anything particularly noteworthy on the long range forecasts, but there might possibly be a bit of weak southish energy early next week… guess we’ll see…
Anyway, have yourself a top old day!
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Tides: L @0707, H @1419
Sydney Coastal Waters, Broken Bay to Port Hacking and 60nm seawards:
Tuesday until midnight: Wind: N/NE 10/15 knots freshening to 15/20 knots in the afternoon.Sea: 1 to 1.5 metres.Swell: E/NE about 1 metre.
Wednesday: Wind: N/NW about 5 knots early, turning N/NE and increasing to 10/15 knots in the afternoon.Sea: to about 1 metre. Swell: East about 1 metre.
Thursday: Wind: NW/NE 10/20 knots ahead of a late S’ly change 10/20 knots.
