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

Dee Why imitates a billiard table

Hello Friends,

Whatcha got on today? Not surfing if you live in Sydney, that’s for sure.

Hard to see how it could get any tinier than it was this morning at Dee Why.  Although the MHL buoy was detecting 0.8 m of 15-second swell from 156° as of 0500, there wasn’t so much as a hint of a line when I took the picture 3 hours later.

From the look of the ECM and Wavewatch models, we’re in for more of the same tomorrow, but come Tuesday south magnets could start to perk up into the waist plus range. It looks as though it’ll be a brief pulse, fading through the day and being pretty much gone by Wednesday.  The next prospect looks to be at the weekend when the models are showing a longer lasting and bigger south arriving from as early as Friday. The downside is that the wind could be pretty strong and south.

You may not need to pull on the steamer either as Beachwatch was measuring 23C water this morning. Good but not good, if you know what I mean.

Go well with your Sunday!

Not a ripple for Sunday morning

Weather Situation

A ridge extending to the northern New South Wales coast from a high near New Zealand will bring moderate to fresh north to northwest winds to the central and southern Waters today. These winds will strengthen today ahead of a cold front that moves through late Sunday and Monday, bringing fresh southwest winds.

Forecast for Sunday until midnight

Winds
Northwesterly 15 to 20 knots tending westerly in the morning.
Seas
1 to 2 metres, decreasing to 1 to 1.5 metres around midday.
Swell
East to northeasterly below 1 metre.
Weather
Mostly sunny.

Monday 27 May

Gale Warning for Monday for Sydney Coast

Winds
West to northwesterly 20 to 25 knots becoming westerly 25 to 30 knots in the middle of the day. Winds reaching up to 35 knots offshore in the early afternoon.
Seas
1 to 2 metres, increasing to 2 to 3 metres around midday.
1st Swell
South to southwesterly below 1 metre inshore, increasing to 1 to 1.5 metres offshore by early evening.
2nd Swell
Easterly around 1 metre.
Weather
Partly cloudy. The chance of a thunderstorm offshore in the late morning and afternoon.

Tuesday 28 May

Winds
Westerly 15 to 25 knots.
Seas
1.5 to 2.5 metres.
1st Swell
Southerly 2 to 3 metres, decreasing to 1 to 2 metres during the afternoon.
2nd Swell
Easterly around 1 metre.
Weather
Mostly sunny.