Hello Friends,
As expected, the south swell arrived late yesterday. As Wednesday got started, the MHL buoy was showing two metres of 11 second south swell. At Dee Why point, that means sets with wave faces of two metres plus. It’s probably a bit bigger than that along the beach, and I’d guess it’d be bigger again around the corner at Curly. Wind was out of the westerly quarters for the early.
The outlook according to the various forecast modelling efforts is for the swell to weaken through the day, but not dramatically. Indeed, the current outlook is for reasonable waves through tomorrow morning.
Weather forecast is calling for showers and the wind is supposed to go around to the easterly quarters later. So, it looks like the plan is to hit it early if you can. Tomorrow the wind should be more around to the northerly quarters and skies should be mostly sunny. Not a bad sort of outlook really.
Longer range, it looks as though we’re heading toward small but not quite flat conditions across the weekend.
Have yourself a good one!
TIDES L @0740, H @1410
Weather Situation
A strong high pressure system centred over southeastern Australia and Bass Strait is extending a ridge to the northern Tasman Sea bringing onshore winds to New South Wales coast. An offshore trough will deepen near the far North Coast on Wednesday increasing winds near Queensland border. The high is expected to move slowly towards New Zealand during Thursday and Friday with winds easing and becoming fresh westerly during the weekend in response to a deep low near Tasmania.
Forecast for Wednesday until midnight
Winds
East to southeasterly 10 to 15 knots tending east to northeasterly during the afternoon and evening.
Seas
Below 1 metre.
Swell
Southerly 2 to 3 metres.
Weather
Large swells breaking dangerously close inshore in the morning.
Thursday 28 June
Winds
Northeasterly 10 to 15 knots turning northerly 15 to 20 knots in the morning.
Seas
Below 1 metre increasing to 1 to 1.5 metres by early evening.
Swell
Southerly about 2 metres.
Friday 29 June
Winds
Northerly 15 to 20 knots turning northwesterly 10 to 15 knots during the day.
Seas
Up to 1.5 metres.
Swell
Southeasterly 1.5 metres tending easterly from the morning.
