Hello Friends,
Just a solitary SUPster paddling along in search of little peaks when I checked Dee Why for the first time today. No wind to speak of, and (weirdly) sunny skies, but our swell energy has drained away to a greater extent than I’d expected. The MHL buoy off Sydney was reporting about a metre of 9 second SSE swell. There might be a bit more activity up the beach at Longy or at other similarly positioned southerly spots, but I’d say it’d be knee to waist with the very, very occasional slightly bigger one – at best.
Probably not going to be too exciting for the comp at Manly…
Tide’s going to be pretty high at about 1120 and then will drop back a metre or so to the low at 1735.
From the look of this morning’s riffs on the computer-generated swell forecast data, we’re in for marginal to worse conditions across the next week. The best bet would seem to be to go early and to see what you can get. Just don’t expect much above the knee to waist range through mid-week. Beyond that the long range modelling is not offering any encouragement. Sadly.
Oh well, it could go showery on us again this afternoon, so get out there and have yourself a great Sunday.
Here’s the Bureau’s call for today through Tuesday:
Forecast for Sunday until midnight
Winds
Southerly 5 to 10 knots tending east to southeasterly during the afternoon then tending east to northeasterly later in the evening.
Seas
Below 1 metre.
Swell
Easterly about 1.5 metres.
Weather
The chance of afternoon thunderstorms.
Monday 13 February
Winds
East to northeasterly 5 to 10 knots becoming light around dawn then tending south to southeasterly up to 10 knots around midday.
Seas
Below 1 metre.
Swell
Easterly 1 metre.
Tuesday 14 February
Winds
Southeasterly 5 to 15 knots.
Seas
Below 1 metre.
Swell
Southeasterly 1 metre.
