Hello Friends,
No sign of a surfable bump at the Dee Why end of the beach when I checked around 0700. Tide and wind were both favourable but Huey was only sending in about a metre of south wind swell (average period was 6 seconds). No one was in the water (hardly a surprise).
Outlook for the rest of the day isn’t too exciting. We might see an increase toward dark though as the Eden buoy is showing a couple metres at 9 seconds apart. Given the transit time though, I’d be pleasantly surprised if that stuff turned up before dark.
Right now it looks to me as though the peak of this little pulse will happen overnight and that by tomorrow we’re likely to find a scene not dissimilar from today.
I’d say it was a shaping up to be a good weekend for being seen by family and friends during daylight hours.
This morning’s run of the forecast models are reinforcing the predictions of the last few days for a brief but interesting looking mid-week south pulse. Depending upon who’s riffing on the basic data, it seems that we could have a few little bumps on Monday and then around Tuesday afternoon a couple metres of 10-12 sec south swell begins to fill in. With luck, it sticks around right through to lunch time on Thursday.
Have yourself a top old Saturday!
TIDES: H @1045 L @1620
Weather Situation
A cold front associated with a low approaching New Zealand from the west is moving over the southwestern Tasman Sea bringing west to southwest winds to coastal waters in the south extending to the north coast during this morning. A high pressure system in the west end of the Bight extends a strengthening ridge across NSW behind the front.
Forecast for Saturday until midnight
Winds
Westerly 15 to 25 knots, reaching 20 to 30 knots offshore at times, then tending west to southwesterly 15 to 20 knots during the morning.
Seas
2 to 3 metres decreasing to 1 to 2 metres.
Swell
Northeasterly 1 metre tending southerly 1.5 metres from the late morning.
Sunday 24 June
Winds
West to southwesterly 15 to 20 knots.
Seas
1 to 1.5 metres.
Swell
Southerly 0.5 to 1.5 metres.
Monday 25 June
Winds
Westerly 15 to 20 knots tending west to southwesterly 10 to 15 knots during the afternoon then tending south to southwesterly 15 to 20 knots during the evening.
Seas
1 to 2 metres.
Swell
Southerly about 2 metres.
