Hello Friends,
Yesterday’s intensity has, as expected, subsided significantly. Set wave faces at Dee Why around 0730 were in the waist to chest range. There seemed to be quite a wait for the waves too. Worse, the wind was out of the SSE at 15 kts or so and as the pictures show, it wasn’t making the conditions any more attractive. Tide wasn’t an issue this morning as the low today is at 0955
At 0500 the MHL buoy was still showing 4.4 metres of SSE swell at about 13 seconds. Looking at Dee Why a couple of hours later makes me think it’s probably dropped significantly since. Certainly there wasn’t anything even remotely in the 4+ metre range!
Outlook is for the decline to continue through the weekend with tomorrow looking pretty marginal and beyond that, well, as the Goat puts it, we’re in for variable conditions.
BTW, I managed to get a few pictures yesterday at Dee Why and later when the wind shifted, at Longy of the back bombie crew.
Have yourself a top Friday everyone!
Weather Situation
A cold front will move to the northern coast during Friday. Behind the front, a high pressure system is expected to drift across from the west, reaching the Tasman Sea by Saturday while extending a ridge towards the Queensland coast. This pattern will see a return to generally northerly winds, before the next southerly change on late Sunday and Monday.
Forecast for Friday until midnight
- Winds
- Variable about 10 knots becoming southerly 15 to 20 knots early in the morning then tending southeasterly in the evening.
- Seas
- Below 1 metre, increasing to 1 to 1.5 metres during the morning.
- Swell
- Southerly 1 to 1.5 metres, tending east to southeasterly around 1 metre during the morning.
- Weather
- Partly cloudy. 60% chance of showers during the morning and afternoon.
Saturday 18 October
- Winds
- Southeasterly 10 to 15 knots becoming variable about 10 knots in the morning then becoming northeasterly 10 to 15 knots in the evening.
- Seas
- Around 1 metre, decreasing below 1 metre during the morning.
- Swell
- Southerly 1 to 1.5 metres, decreasing to around 1 metre during the afternoon.
- Weather
- Partly cloudy.
Sunday 19 October
- Winds
- Northeasterly 10 to 15 knots tending northerly 15 to 20 knots during the morning.
- Seas
- 1 to 1.5 metres.
- Swell
- Southeasterly around 1 metre.
- Weather
- Sunny.
