Hello Friends,
Swell’s faded again overnight and this morning sees much less activity at the point and lined up, shutting down waist to chest high sets along the beach. Out at sea the swell was 1.3 metres at 10 seconds apart. It was coming from 166° (SSE).
As expected, the outlook for the next few days is not fab. It still looks from the Bureau’s forecast and the models, that we can expect marginal prospects tomorrow and getting close to flat on Wednesday. Thursday and Friday could be a slight improvement on that, but right now it looks like the next significant pulse could be from the east and becoming evident late Saturday to early Sunday.
My new fun morning ritual is to check the latest vaccination numbers at COVID Live. 57% first doses in 16+ and 33.9% 2nd dosed, we’re still nowhere near where we should have been by now, but, 220,686 more Australians got a jab yesterday. A week ago the jab count was 17.1 million, yesterday it was 18.9 m. So gradually getting there. My daughter got her first jab yesterday at Homebush. She showed up early and was heading back to the car less than half an hour later.
Have a great Monday!
Weather Situation
The cold front over eastern NSW has weakened to a trough and will move to the Tasman Sea tonight and early Monday with a fresh to strong west to southwesterly wind change following the trough. Coastal Waters will then be mostly under a northerly influence as a high pressure system establishes over the eastern Tasman Sea on Tuesday, although a weak southerly change may intrude the far southern coastal waters on Wednesday in association with a front slipping south.
Forecast for Monday until midnight
- Winds
- Southwesterly 10 to 15 knots, reaching up to 20 knots offshore during the morning. Winds becoming variable about 10 knots in the early afternoon then becoming northeast to northwesterly around 10 knots in the evening.
- Seas
- 1 to 1.5 metres, decreasing below 1 metre around midday.
- Swell
- Southerly 1 to 1.5 metres.
- Weather
- Partly cloudy.
Tuesday 31 August
- Winds
- West to northwesterly 10 to 15 knots turning northerly during the afternoon and evening.
- Seas
- Below 1 metre.
- Swell
- South to southeasterly around 1 metre.
- Weather
- Sunny.
Wednesday 1 September
- Winds
- Northwesterly 10 to 15 knots becoming variable about 10 knots during the afternoon.
- Seas
- Below 1 metre.
- Swell
- Southeasterly below 1 metre.
- Weather
- Sunny.
