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

Take another turn in the holding pattern

Hello Friends,

No real change to the key numbers this morning for Sydney surfers. We still have a weak little SSE wind swell of around 1.5 metres with an average period of close to 8 seconds. As I tapped out the report this morning a little before 0800, the wind was a chop-inducing ENE’r of 10-15 kts. Toss in another round of featureless grey skies, and it’s not much of a picture.

I think you can pretty much write this one off. Although, if you are extra keen, you might want to look at NE corners late this afternoon. The Bureau is calling for the swell to swing more easterly and to push up a touch. But the ENE wind is set to be a feature all day long.

Oh well, what can ya do?

As always, I’ll keep an eye on things and if there’s a significant improvement, the news will appear here!

Go well one and all.

Weather Situation

A high pressure system over the southwestern Tasman Sea is moving south-southeast and weakening maintaining a ridge to the Coral Sea. Later on Saturday a cold front is expected to move over the southern Tasman Sea later on Saturday bringing southerly change along the New South Wales coast.

Forecast for Friday until midnight

Winds
East to northeasterly 10 to 20 knots.
Seas
1 to 1.5 metres.
Swell
Southeasterly 1 metre tending easterly 1.5 metres late this evening.

Saturday 15 October

Winds
East to northeasterly 10 to 20 knots tending north to northeasterly around dawn then tending northeast to northwesterly up to 15 knots during the morning.
Seas
Up to 1.5 metres.
Swell
Northeasterly about 1.5 metres.

Sunday 16 October

Winds

West to southwesterly 10 to 20 knots tending mainly southeast to southwesterly up to 10 knots during the afternoon. Winds tending northwesterly up to 20 knots during the evening.

Seas

Up to 1.5 metres decreasing to below 1 metre during the evening.

Swell

Easterly about 1.5 metres.