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

Grey, gloomy and tiny for Wednesday morning

Hello Friends,

8 to 10 knots of southerly and heavy overcast skies as Wednesday got started along the beaches. I couldn’t see anyone in the water at Dee Why or No Mans. Not surprising really when you look at the pictures. Surface conditions were actually relatively smooth, but there is no energy in the ocean for us to play with. The latest MHL data shows only a 6 second, 1.5 m SSE wind bump out at sea. Not that it’s very relevant, but tide is coming into a high just before noon. The southerly should swing east later.

A quick scan of the swell prediction models suggests that we can write off surfing in Sydney for another couple of days, but maybe come late Friday we’ll get a bump into the fun range that could persist into the early part of Saturday. The models show sub-10 sec periods though, so I’m only very cautiously hopeful. I’ll be keen to see what the Goat thinks tomorrow…

Have a good Wednesday!

No Mans no dice at 0700
Spitty and heavily overcast on a tiny morning

Weather Situation
A high pressure system near New Zealand extends a ridge towards the northern New South Wales coast, while a weakening low pressure trough slowly moves north along the northern coast. The next high is expected to move from the Bight to the Tasman Sea later today where it will strengthen towards the end of the week as a cold front approaches from the west. Northeasterly winds will freshen across New South Waters ahead of this cold front, before a southerly change is expected on Sunday.

Forecast for Wednesday until midnight
Winds
Southerly 15 to 20 knots turning east to southeasterly below 10 knots in the evening.
Seas
1 to 1.5 metres, decreasing to 1 metre during the afternoon.
Swell
Northeasterly 1 to 1.5 metres, decreasing to around 1 metre during the morning.
Weather
Cloudy.
Thursday 30 January
Winds
Variable about 10 knots becoming northeasterly 10 to 15 knots in the late morning and reaching up to 20 knots inshore.
Seas
Below 1 metre, increasing to 1 to 1.5 metres inshore during the afternoon.
Swell
Easterly below 1 metre.
Weather
Partly cloudy.
Friday 31 January
Winds
North to northeasterly 15 to 25 knots.
Seas
1 to 1.5 metres, increasing to 1.5 to 2.5 metres during the afternoon.
Swell
Northeast to southeasterly below 1 metre.
Weather
Mostly sunny.