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Barely there for the early

Hello Friends, Another dense atmosphere morning for Sydney and the Bureau has the following warning on its Saturday forecast: A POOR Air Quality Forecast alert issued by the Department of Planning, Industry and Environment (DPIE) due to forecast elevated PM2.5 levels in Sydney for Saturday. It’s right at the lower end of surfability this morning […]

Grey skies for Friday morning

Hello Friends, Looks like a morning to give it a miss at Dee Why unless you’re really, really keen. And if you are, you can have ankle to knee high dribble pretty much to yourself. Out at sea the wind bump is a couple of metres but less than 7 seconds apart and coming from […]

The Goat’s Surf Forecast

The Goat’s Surf Forecast Surf forecast issued Thursday 28 November 2019: Seven day outlook for Sydney: Some warm, smokey days ahead with flip floppy winds and not much surf. At least the water temp has gone up a little to make for some comfort…on those warm, smokey days ahead with flip floppy winds and not […]

Surf on hold at Dee Why

Hello Friends, So, nothing doing on the surf front this morning for Dee Why. Swell is straight south and about 1.5 metres with a period of 9 seconds. Wind was coming faintly from the NW at 0730. Tide was ramping up to a swampy 1.9 m high at 1010. We’re going to a high of […]

Beautiful morning with waves

Hello Friends, Had a look around this morning to see if I could spot a worthy wave. Swell has come up as expected. It’s straight south and a couple of metres out at sea with a period of 11 seconds. This meant it was biggest at north ends such as Long Reef. Unfortunately in the […]

Sunny and smoke hazy with no waves

Hello Friends, The smoke from the bush fires up and down NSW has dropped visibility to around 10 km along the beaches this morning. As the picture shows there’s no real reason to take anything smaller than a SUP down to the seashore at Dee Why. The MHL buoy is showing a little under a […]

Micro Monday

Hello Friends, Light NNW breeze early brought the smoke haze back to the beaches this morning. It should pick up later as it swings NE and gets up to 15-25 kts. Out at sea the MHL buoy was detecting less than a metre of 8 second bump from the SE. But it wasn’t doing anything […]

Gloomy, choppy and small for Sunday morning

Hello Friends, Looks like a great day to do something other than try to surf at Dee Why (and elsewhere along the beaches no doubt). The pictures really tell the story, but for the record out at sea the bumps are into the 1.5 metre range, they’re coming from the SSE but the period’s a […]

Cloudy and calm early for Saturday

Hello Friends, Looks like a safe morning for the Fight for the Bight paddle-out at Manly just before noon today. Grab a board and be part of history! Anyway, if you were hoping for a surf beforehand, you’d better dial down the expectations pretty severely because it’s just about flat. The biggest wave I saw […]

Another smoky morning

Hello Friends, The beach was just barely visible from RealSurf HQ thanks to another day of smoke from the fires devouring vast areas of the bush around NSW. Waves look very small and the MHL buoy shows why: it’s around 2 metres from the north out at sea but average period is only 7 seconds. […]