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Little bumps on tap at Dee Why

Hello Friends,

Light westerly blowing at 0700 when I grabbed this morning’s snaps. Skies were sunny and as predicted yesterday, the surf energy has come up a little. Although I saw what looked to be a possibly briefly rideable bump at the point, it seems the best possibilities are along the beach. The MHL buoy was seeing a metre of 10-second SSE swell at 0500. If you figure on not very energetic ankle to knee high wave faces on sets, you should have expectations well aligned with conditions. Wind should be variably onshore across the day. Our next tide is a low at 1045. Water is around the 17C mark.

The Wavewatch model was closer than the ECM yesterday. It’s predicting the current energy level to persist through tomorrow afternoon and possibly even picking up a little overnight. The ECM says nah, it’ll be flat. The Bureau leans more toward Wavewatch in terms of its predictions for the next 24 hours, so that’s a bit hopeful.

Have a great Wednesday everyone!

 

Little peak gets caught at Kiddies 0700
Briefly plausible line at the point (a second later it disappeared)

Weather Situation
A high pressure system centred near Adelaide will move east today, reaching the western Tasman Sea on Thursday. The next cold front is expect to reach the south coast later on Friday and the north coast on Saturday.

Forecast for Wednesday until midnight
Winds
Variable about 10 knots becoming east to northeasterly 10 to 15 knots in the afternoon then decreasing to about 10 knots in the late evening.
Seas
Around 1 metre.
Swell
Southerly 1.5 metres.
Weather
Partly cloudy.
Thursday 26 September
Winds
Northeasterly 10 to 15 knots tending northerly in the late evening.
Seas
Around 1 metre.
Swell
Southerly 1.5 metres inshore, increasing to 1.5 to 2 metres offshore.
Weather
Partly cloudy. 60% chance of showers.
Friday 27 September
Winds
North to northwesterly 10 to 15 knots tending west to northwesterly during the evening.
Seas
Around 1 metre.
Swell
Southerly 1 to 1.5 metres, decreasing to around 1 metre during the morning.
Weather
The chance of a thunderstorm in the morning. Sunny day.