Hello Friends,
Fetched up in lovely Hay in the far west of NSW. But I’ve got net access and the evening is young, so I thought I’d make myself useful by having a look at tomorrow’s surf prospects for Sydney…
The wind is set to stay out of the NW all day, but from the look of the forecast models, it seems likely that whatever swell we had on Saturday, will slowly but steadily decline into the marginal category even at those beaches that like SE swell. A slight lift in the period from around 8 to about 9 seconds won’t be enough to counter the drop in average height from 2 metres out at sea this morning, to about a metre at dusk. There might possibly be something catchable at really exposed spots Sunday morning, but from the looks of things, it’ll be marginal to flat by dark.
The latest marine forecast (see below) says Sydney should still have NW winds on Monday when the models reckon it’ll be just about flat. Happily, whilst Monday looks to be a write-off at this point, there just might be a fresh south pulse for us on Sunday. Some of the predictions are going for shoulder to head high for Tuesday morning at south swell spots.
That’d be good!
Probably won’t be filing again until Sunday night – if not Monday morning. Go well!
Sydney Coastal Waters, Broken Bay to Port Hacking and 60nm seawards:
Saturday until midnight: Wind: Light winds tending northerly up to 10 knots later in the evening.Sea: Below 1 metre.Swell: Southerly 1.5 metres.
Sunday: Wind: North to northwesterly 10 to 15 knots becoming northwesterly 15 to 20 knots by early evening.Sea: Below 1 metre increasing to 1 to 1.5 metres by early evening.Swell: Southeasterly about 1.5 metres.
Monday: Wind: Northwesterly 10 to 20 knots tending westerly 10 to 15 knots during the morning then tending southwesterly 15 to 20 knots during the afternoon. Winds southerly 20 to 25 knots later in the evening.
Tuesday: Wind: South to southwesterly 20 to 30 knots decreasing to 10 to 20 knots during the afternoon.
