"Stay happy and you'll be perfectly fine" - Jack Norris

Clean little lines

Hello Friends,

Cloudless skies and a light west wind this morning at daybreak. Feels like autumn. Swell has moved around more to the south overnight and as of 0500 was 1.5 m and coming mainly from 159° (although there was still some small, longer period component out of the NE). The odd nice looking line coming around the point, but no one was on it and I’d guess it was closer to knee than waist high. Up the beach the line looked to be a similar size. At 0500 .The MHL buoy was showing 12-sec period, but it looked a lot closer together than that to me when I grabbed the pics. So, figure on knee with the occasional waist high set.

Tide is dropping to a lowish 0.4 m low at 1215.

Wind should wander around to the easterly quarters this morning and then settle to the NE this afternoon.

Outlook is for swell size to bumble along more or less at the current intensity until Friday when we might see a slight uptick. The swell models were more optimistic about Friday yesterday, but they’re less so today. It will be what it will be of course.

Have yourself a top old Tuesday everyone!

Little line showing at an unpopulated point 0730
Fattish little peak at No Mans

 

Weather Situation

A southwest to southeasterly flow extends along the New South Wales coast in the wake of a cold front. Winds will begin to turn east to northeasterly by this afternoon as a high pressure system moves over the Tasman Sea and extends a ridge northwest across New South Wales. This high will remain slow-moving for the next few days, before a weak trough moves along the southern coast on Friday.

Forecast for Tuesday until midnight

Winds
South to southeasterly 10 to 15 knots turning east to northeasterly in the afternoon and becoming northeasterly 15 to 20 knots by evening.
Seas
Around 1 metre, increasing to 1 to 1.5 metres by evening.
1st Swell
Southerly 1 to 1.5 metres.
2nd Swell
East to northeasterly around 1 metre.
Weather
Partly cloudy.

Wednesday 28 March

Winds
Northeasterly 15 to 20 knots.
Seas
1 to 1.5 metres.
1st Swell
Southerly around 1 metre.
2nd Swell
East to northeasterly around 1 metre.
Weather
Partly cloudy.

Thursday 29 March

Winds
Northerly 10 to 15 knots turning northeasterly 15 to 20 knots during the afternoon.
Seas
1 to 1.5 metres.
Swell
Easterly around 1 metre.
Weather
Partly cloudy.