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

Clean but small for the early

Dropped overnight but clean at 0720

Hello Friends,

Cloudy this morning but there were patches of blue here and there too. Down at the beach the surface conditions were clean for the early thanks to a light WNW breeze. Swell was about a metre out of the east at 8 seconds. It was too small for the point to have attracted any hopefuls. Instead the keen types were up the beach toward No Mans. Tide was a deepish 1.8 m high at 0645, so that was having an effect on the waist-ish high sets. Beachwatch hadn’t updated when I wrote this, but unsurprisingly there were a lot of ‘pollution likely’ warnings south from Newport to Manly. Given the amount of rain yesterday,you’d have to expect water to be suss again today.

Outlook according to the models is for the current energy levels to last through the week. The Wavewatch model is showing a brief excursion into the 12+ sec range from the south tomorrow, but the ECM prediction says ‘nah’ it’ll be like today. We’ll see…

Have yourself a great Monday everyone!

 

Weather Situation

A low pressure system, embedded within a trough near the New South Wales Coast, intensified near the South Coast overnight. This low is forecast to weaken this morning then drift to the north and may lie near central parts of the coast later tonight or during Tuesday. Following this, the trough is expected to linger over the western Tasman Sea for much of the following week.

Forecast for Monday until midnight

Winds
North to northwesterly 10 to 15 knots tending east to northeasterly in the late afternoon, reaching up to 20 knots inshore in the late evening.
Seas
1 to 1.5 metres.
Swell
Southeasterly 1 to 1.5 metres.
Weather
Partly cloudy. 80% chance of showers. The chance of a thunderstorm.

Tuesday 19 March

Winds
Northeasterly 10 to 15 knots, reaching up to 20 knots inshore early in the morning, becoming variable about 10 knots in the morning.
Seas
Around 1 metre.
Swell
Easterly around 1 metre.
Weather
Cloudy. 70% chance of showers. The chance of a thunderstorm.

Wednesday 20 March

Winds
Variable about 10 knots.
Seas
Below 1 metre.
Swell
Easterly around 1 metre.
Weather
Partly cloudy. 60% chance of showers and the chance of a thunderstorm.