"Stay happy and you'll be perfectly fine" - Jack Norris

Sunday and the surfin’ is looking good

Hello Friends,

A mostly sunny morning with light westerlies and a couple metres of 10 second period south swell for International Surf Day. And that means fun right along Sydney’s beaches. Unless you have some pressing obligation, I’d be heading out looking for a wave if I could. From the look of the forecasts, we should have surf and favourable winds all day long, although it appears that the wave energy may drop a toward dark, so sooner could be better on that front.

I should have some fresh galleries from Friday and Saturday up this evening, and I’m going to try to add another today if I can.

Of course I’ll be lending a (gloved) hand to the beach clean up/picnic/music gathering at Long Reef from 2pm this afternoon.

Outlook for the next few days is a steady decline to midweek smallness. There might be some little ones around on Monday morning, but Tue-Wed is looking kinda marginal at this stage on the forecast models. Looks as though we could get another perk for south swell spots Thr-Fri. What a winter we’re having!

Have yourself a great Sunday.

Tides: H @1050, L @1620

Weather Situation
A deep low pressure system over the southern Tasman Sea is moving slowly to the south. A high over central Australia extends a ridge eastwards. These two systems are resulting in fresh to strong southwest winds over NSW coastal waters. Winds are expected to ease Sunday as the low moves near to New Zealand and a high pressure ridge strengthens across NSW. Winds are likely to increase from late Monday with a cold front moving across the state on Tuesday.
Forecast for Sunday until midnight
Winds
Southwesterly 15 to 25 knots, reaching 30 knots offshore, decreasing to 10 to 20 knots during the morning then tending westerly 10 to 15 knots around midday.
Seas
Up to 3 metres decreasing below 1.5 metres during the morning.
Swell
Southerly about 2 metres.
Monday 20 June
Winds
West to northwesterly 10 to 20 knots.
Seas
Up to 1.5 metres increasing to 1.5 to 2 metres later in the evening.
Swell
Southeasterly about 1.5 metres.
Tuesday 21 June
Winds
Northwesterly 20 to 30 knots tending westerly 30 to 35 knots during the afternoon then decreasing to 25 to 30 knots during the evening.
Seas
Up to 3 metres.
Swell
Southeasterly 1 metre.