Hello Friends
From the look of the pre-dawn indicators, Sydney surfers are set to wake up to, well, pretty average conditions. There wasn’t much wind about to start with, but the forecast has it coming up from the SE by the afternoon. Swell was a feeble looking 1 metre SE’r at about 8 sec apart. There is some 11 sec stuff in the mix though and looking at the buoy data from up north, I wonder if it might mean the odd interesting set turning up from the east to north east at exposed spots. Certainly there is more swell activity showing on the Byron and Crowdy buoys, so it’d have to at least be a slight possibility.
Outlook for Sydney remains somewhat uninspiring for another 24 hours and then it seems that a NE’ly will kick in pretty hard from tomorrow afternoon. With luck this will deliver something at spots that can handle both NE wind and some east to north east windswell. A place like Manly could have some size by Tuesday, but it’ll also likely be hammered by the onshores.
Have yourself a good one!
Weather Situation for Sydney’s coast from the Australian Bureau of Meterology
A slow- moving high pressure system over the Tasman Sea to the east of Tasmania extends a ridge to Queensland coast.
Forecast for Sunday until midnight
Winds: East to southeasterly 10 to 15 knots increasing to 15 to 20 knots during the afternoon. Seas: Below 1 metre increasing to 1 to 1.5 metres during the afternoon. Swell: Easterly 1 metre.
Forecast for Monday
Winds: East to northeasterly 20 to 25 knots becoming northeasterly 20 to 30 knots later in the evening. Seas: 1.5 to 2 metres. Swell: Easterly 1 to 2 metres.
Forecast for Tuesday
Winds: North to northeasterly 20 to 25 knots. Seas: 1.5 to 2 metres. Swell: Easterly 2 to 3 metres.
Postcard from California
Almost perfectly flat at Campus Point (Goleta point) near the University of California at Santa Barbara. Campus can fire in a heavy NW winter swell, but for most of the year it is flat or nearly flat. On a really big day, you can catch a wave at the top of the point and ride for over a km. Mostly though the action tends to be at the top of the point where there are three or four distinct take-off zones.
