Hello Friends,
Interesting. There are shoulder plus sets at Dee Why thanks to the stiff southerly, but the MHL buoy is reporting only a metre on average at 6 seconds. The seas are up toward the 3 metre mark, so I’d say the folks in the water are catching lumped up seas as much as anything else. That means the usual deal of not really knowing if you’ve got something catchable until you’re dropping down the face – and then it might disappear a few seconds later. Kinda like giant lake waves.
The southerly is expected to weaken toward the middle part of the day, but don’t expect it to glass off or anything! It just won’t be going quite as hard. So, it’ll be protected south corners only.
Outlook for tomorrow is for more – but lighter – onshores and, importantly, south swell of potentially okay size. Indeed we should get something out of the south on Sunday too – with NE winds.
Looking forward to seeing how it plays out!
Go well and have yourself a great Friday.
Tide is high at 0950 and low will be at 1630.
Weather Situation
A high pressure system south of the Bight is extending a ridge across New South Wales in the wake of a cold front, bringing a fresh to strong southerly airstream to the coast today. The high will move to the Tasman Sea during Saturday, and is then expected to remain slow-moving through the first half of next week, directing warmer northerly winds over New South Wales as a trough approaches from the west. The trough and an associated cold front currently appear likely reach the coast state mid-week.
Forecast for Friday until midnight
Winds
Southerly 20 to 30 knots decreasing to 15 to 25 knots in the middle of the day.
Seas
3 metres decreasing to 2 metres around midday then decreasing to below 1 metre in the evening.
Swell
Southeasterly 1.5 to 2 metres.
Weather
Large swells breaking dangerously close inshore in the afternoon and evening.
Saturday 3 November
Winds
Southeasterly about 10 knots tending easterly 10 to 15 knots in the middle of the day then tending northeasterly in the late evening.
Seas
Below 1 metre.
Swell
Southerly 2 to 3 metres.
Weather
Large swells breaking dangerously close inshore.
Sunday 4 November
Winds
Northeasterly 15 to 20 knots.
Seas
1 to 1.5 metres increasing to 1.5 to 2 metres during the evening.
Swell
Southerly about 2 metres.
Weather
Large swells breaking dangerously close inshore.
