Hello Friends,
Another corker of a day. Light breeze early and sunny skies but, sadly, only ankle to knee high with just the very occasional waist high set at the best exposures. Swell at sea is a shade under a metre at 9 seconds from the east. Definitely a morning for the small wave options in your quiver. We should see a high of 27 along the beaches and the wind will pick up from the northerly quarters ahead of a late south change tonight. Tide was high at 0615 and will bottom out at 1155. So, dropping tide, increasing side-onshore, if you’re going, you better go now.
The hope of an improvement to the marginal conditions later this week now appears to have faded. It may be a tiny bit bigger as we get to Thursday and Friday, but I’m only slightly optimistic.
Weather Situation
A weakening high pressure system lies over the Tasman Sea, while a trough of low pressure associated with a cold front to the south is forecast to bring a southerly change to the southern and central coast today. Following this a new high is expected to strengthen over the southern Tasman Sea on Wednesday and Thursday, extending a ridge to the northern New South Wales coast.
Forecast for Tuesday until midnight
Winds
Northerly 10 to 15 knots, reaching 20 knots inshore this afternoon. Winds shifting southerly 15 to 25 knots in the evening.
Seas
1 to 2 metres.
Swell
Easterly below 1 metre.
Weather
Sunny.
Wednesday 14 October
Winds
Southerly 15 to 25 knots decreasing to 10 to 15 knots in the morning and becoming southeasterly in the afternoon.
Seas
1 to 2 metres, decreasing to 1 metre during the morning.
1st Swell
Southerly around 1 metre, increasing to 1.5 metres by early evening.
2nd Swell
East to northeasterly around 1 metre.
Weather
Mostly sunny.
Thursday 15 October
Winds
Northerly 15 to 20 knots increasing to 20 to 25 knots during the afternoon.
Seas
Around 1 metre, increasing to 1 to 2 metres during the afternoon.
Swell
Southerly 1 to 1.5 metres, tending southeasterly around 1 metre during the afternoon.
Weather
Sunny
