Hello Friends,
This afternoon is looking a lot like this morning, ie little SE 7 sec wind swell and SSE wind of 15-20kts. Throw in the (still) grey skies and you can pretty much have anywhere you want to yourself. And tomorrow looks like another round of the same sadly. Sunday could see NE’rly in the morning and the windswell swinging more around to the east to line up with it. Might be sort of do-able.
As most of our regulars will know, I’m a long time member of Surfrider Foundation’s northern beaches branch and this year we’re in charge of the annual conference. We’re a couple weeks out from the big event so I’m going to be mentioning it a bit in the run up to see if I can persuade some of the thousands of surfers who check us out each day to think about coming along. I know the activist thing is something of a minority interest, but I also know that most surfers care about the ocean and our beaches. Surfrider works because pretty much everyone involved surfs and loves the ocean in the way surfers do.
So anyway, a bunch of us have been meeting and planning and pulling together a program for Saturday the 20th and for a bit of knees up surfer style for that evening when we’ll celebrate the 30th anniversary of the mighty Thruster with the man himself, Simon Anderson. You can get tickets on the night, but if you’ve joined us for the Saturday program, you’re in automatically. I’ll talk more about the program in coming days, but if you want to learn more, just jump to the event site at www.welovewaves.org for details – and our online rego form (hint! hint!)
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This morning I wrote…
80% chance of rain in Sydney today apparently. Wind is around 15 kts from the SE and the SE swell, while around the two metre mark, is lapping weakly along on a period of just 6 seconds. And yet there were a few bods bobbing around in the slightly suss looking waters at Dee Why. The point was occupied by a few kayakers who seemed in fact to have the ideal wave catching equipment for the circumstances. I mean it looks like rapids out there, so why not use a rapid riding craft? Meanwhile inside amongst the heaving mess of chop there were a few stalwarts having a go. You wouldn’t want to overstate the quality, but hey, unlike your correspondent, they were in the water and even catching a few into the chest high range.
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Weather Situation from the Bureau of Meterology
Depening low pressere trough off New South Wales north coast is expected to increase winds there during today. A high pressure system south of the Bight is moving east extending a ridge to the northern Tasman Sea. The trough will weaken during Saturady as the high moves east of Tasmania extending the ridge to the north coast.
Forecast for Friday until midnight
Winds: Southeasterly 15 to 20 knots. Seas: 1.5 to 2 metres decreasing to below 1 metre by early evening. Swell: Southeasterly 1 metre.
Forecast for Saturday
Winds: East to southeasterly 10 to 15 knots tending east to northeasterly later in the evening. Seas: Up to 1.5 metres. Swell: Southeasterly about 1.5 metres.
Forecast for Sunday
Winds: Northeasterly 10 to 15 knots tending north to northeasterly up to 10 knots during the morning then increasing to 10 to 20 knots during the evening. Seas: Below 1 metre increasing up to 1.5 metres during the evening. Swell: Easterly about 1.5 metres.
