Hello Friends,
Hope you’re having a good Chrissie. The gloomy and drizzly skies give Sydney a kind of wintry feel this morning. Too bad we don’t have winter style waves. Instead, it was lightly onshore with a crumbly little remnant south wind swell burbling in to deliver very gutless knee to waist high dribble for the assembled masses.
So, looks good for kicking back with the fam, eating and drinking too much and all that good stuff.
Have a great one everybody!
Forecast updated at 4:33 am EDT on Wednesday 25 December 2013.
Weather Situation
A low pressure trough in the far northeast has recently brought a southerly change to the New South Wales far north coast. Behind the trough a high pressure system will move over the western Tasman Sea today, with northeasterly winds strengthening along the south coast. A low pressure system will rapidly develop off the Sydney and Illawarra coast early Thursday, with strengthening southerly winds developing along the central parts of the coast, before moving quickly over the Tasman Sea late Thursday and during Friday. Another trough is expected to move across the state during Sunday bringing another stronger southerly change up the entire NSW coast.
Forecast for Wednesday until midnight
Winds
Easterly 10 to 15 knots turning northeasterly 15 to 20 knots in the morning. Winds reaching up to 25 knots offshore in the late evening.
Seas
Below 1 metre, increasing to 1 to 1.5 metres offshore during the afternoon.
Swell
Southerly around 1 metre.
Thursday 26 December
Strong Wind Warning for Thursday for Sydney Coastal Waters
Winds
North to northeasterly 20 to 25 knots shifting south to southwesterly 15 to 25 knots in the morning. Winds reaching up to 30 knots until evening.
Seas
1.5 to 2 metres, increasing to 2 to 3 metres during the morning, then decreasing below 2 metres by early evening.
Swell
Northeast to southeasterly below 1 metre.
Weather
The chance of thunderstorms from the late morning.
Friday 27 December
Winds
South to southeasterly 15 to 20 knots.
Seas
Around 1 metre, increasing to 1 to 1.5 metres offshore.
Swell
Easterly below 1 metre.
