Hello Friends,
A mainly sunny start to proceedings along the beaches this morning. Wind was lightly offshore for the early, but the Bureau’s hoisted the strong wind pennant, warning that it’ll be northerly 15-25 kts later as things swing into southerly to SE’ly mode for the next few days.
There’s nothing much going on at Dee Why this morning. If you have a SUP there’s the occasional sub-knee high ripple to be pounced on, but really not much more than that. The MHL buoy was detecting 1.2 metres of 6-second NE wind chop, so you’ll be doing well to get anything above thigh high. That said, there does seem to be some extremely small, but long-period south swell in the mix, so maybe over the course of a session there might be one or two with a bit more energy than the rest.
The Goat should be along later with his thoughts on the surf week to come, and as always I’m keen to see what he reckons. To me it looks like an uptick over the weekend, but one with a heap of S-SE wind.
Have a great Thursday everyone!
Weather Situation
A high pressure system near New Zealand is moving east and weakening maintaining a ridge to the northwest. During Thursday afternoon a cold front will bring southerly change along New South Wales south coast, extending to Sydney Waters in the evening before weakening on the central coast overnight.
Forecast for Thursday until midnight
Strong Wind Warning for Thursday for Sydney Coast
Winds
Northerly 15 to 25 knots, reaching up to 30 knots in the late evening. Winds shifting south to southeasterly in the late evening.
Seas
1 to 2 metres, decreasing to 1 to 1.5 metres around midday.
Swell
Easterly below 1 metre.
Weather
Partly cloudy. 70% chance of showers this evening. The chance of a thunderstorm offshore late this afternoon and evening.
Friday 3 April
Strong Wind Warning for Friday for Sydney Coast
Winds
Southerly 20 to 25 knots, reaching up to 30 knots early in the morning. Winds turning southeasterly 15 to 20 knots early in the morning.
Seas
2 to 2.5 metres, decreasing to 1 to 1.5 metres during the morning.
1st Swell
Southerly around 1 metre, increasing to 1 to 1.5 metres around midday.
2nd Swell
East to northeasterly around 1 metre.
Weather
Cloudy. 70% chance of showers. The chance of a thunderstorm.
Saturday 4 April
Winds
Southeasterly 15 to 20 knots.
Seas
1 to 1.5 metres.
Swell
Southerly 1.5 to 2 metres.
Weather
Cloudy. 70% chance of showers. The chance of a thunderstorm.
