Hello Friends,
There are some very small east wind swell waves along Sydney’s shore. You’ll need your most bouyant craft because the biggest ones are struggling to hit the knee high mark. Not much wind as the morning got started, but the call is for it to be going pretty stiffly from the NE by this afternoon. From the shape of the models I’d guess there would be a chance of something more impressive size-wise toward dusk at places that can handle the wind.
The long range forecasts of a week or so ago got it reasonably right about today, so I’m quietly confident that they’ve picked it for the next three days as well. If it all unfolds as the super computers reckon it will, we should see reasonable size, but short period, ENE swell by tomorrow morning. As Sunday goes along, the models say we can expect the periods to get longer and therefore we should also see a marked improvement by Monday morning at east swell spots that like wind out of the westerly quarters (ie everywhere!).
On current reckoning it looks as though the swell will peak at some point on Monday but it should be fun and quite good through Tuesday. The call is for a couple metres at the peak with periods in the 10 second range. That could translate into two metre plus faces on the bigger ones, so here’s hoping that we’re looking at a proper pulse for the new week!
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Weather Situation
A high near New Zealand extends a ridge to the New South Wales north coast. Northerly winds are increasing along the coast a low pressure trough over the state’s west slowly approaches. The trough is expected to bring a southerly change to the southern coast early Monday, extending to northern parts during Tuesday.Forecast for Saturday until midnight
Winds: Northerly 10 to 20 knots tending northeasterly 20 to 30 knots in the afternoon. Seas: 1 to 2 metres increasing to 2 to 3 metres during the afternoon. Swell: Easterly below 1 metre.Forecast for Sunday
Winds: North to northeasterly 20 to 30 knots decreasing to 15 to 25 knots during the morning then decreasing to 10 to 20 knots later in the evening. Seas: Up to 3 metres decreasing to 2 metres around midday. Swell: Easterly 1 to 2 metres. The chance of thunderstorms inshore from the late morning, extending throughout in the afternoon and evening.Forecast for Monday
Winds: Northwest to southwesterly 10 to 15 knots tending southerly during the morning then increasing to 10 to 20 knots during the afternoon. Winds increasing to southerly 20 to 30 knots during the evening. Seas: Below 1 metre increasing to 1 to 1.5 metres during the afternoon then increasing to 1.5 to 2 metres during the evening. Swell: Easterly 2 metres.
And, just for fun… it was much bigger than Sydney on Lake Michigan a couple days ago thanks to a massive low pressure system over Chicago…
