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Afternoon update

Hello Friends

Over the course of the day, the south swell rolling into Sydney built up from chest to shoulder high at exposed spots to head high plus. The MHL data shows that it’s stayed around the 3 metre mark out at sea since late last night, but from about midday on the average and peak periods went from 10 & 12 seconds, to 11 & 13 sec.

Went for a splash at the south end of Dee Why beach and you could really feel the difference between the 10-11 sec average ones and those coming in at 13s apart.

Not sure what was going on, but there were lots of folks in the water during the middle part of the day at Dee Why. Wave quality was – as the pictures I took at the point during the late morning show – not amazing. The swell has a nice long line, but our featureless summer banks don’t have the kind of gutters we need for strongly defined peaks. So, it was kinda sectiony in the beachy, and because there’s a heap of sand just north of the point, the bigger sets were sectioning quite a bit.

Swell is expected to back off overnight, but there should still be a little something at south-facing beaches tomorrow for the early risers.

Latest run of the models suggests that we’ll see the conditions get weaker and smaller across the end of the week and into the weekend. There’s some hope of an uptick though as next week kicks off.

Have yourself a top old evening!

 

 

 

 

Sydney Coastal Waters, Broken Bay to Port Hacking and 60nm seawards:
Wednesday until midnight: Wind: E/SE 10/15 knots. Sea: 1 to 1.5 metres. Swell: S 2.5 to 3 metres. Dangerous surf conditions
Thursday: Wind: E/SE 5/10 knots turning E/NE 10/15 knots. Sea: about 1 metre.Swell: S about 2 metres.
Friday: Wind: E/NE 10/15 knots
Saturday: Wind: E/NE 15/25 knots.