Sunday sorta okay start
Hello Friends, Woke to a brief but soaking shower gurgling in the downpipes. As of 0900, the sun is back along the Northern beaches and the hazy air is (briefly?) diminished. We have some little waist with odd plusses dead south wind swell lapping into Dee Why. Out at sea the MHL data showed it […]
Marginal but possible
Hello Friends, Only little this morning and not likely to get bigger either. Was glassy for the early, but the NE’r should start ruffling things by late morning. Once again your best shot will be where you surfed yesterday. Swell is out of the SSE at 1.5m or so at sea. There’s some 12 sec […]
Little Sunday sloppy surf
Hello Friends, Extremely hazy this morning at 0830. Guess that means it’ll be a humid and warm. Topping at around 32 says the Bureau and chance of thunderstorms out west in the afternoon. Wind should be NE 15-25 kts later – it was already 10kts at 0900. Swell is a disorganised, junky and weak south […]
A summery morning for a summery day
Hello Friends, Sunny skies and light winds for the early risers this morning. And a standard issue early summer’s day coming up for us too. Wind will spring up soon and by this afternoon be out of the NE at 15-20 kts. Tide’s going to be an issue across the next few mornings though. It’s […]
Small sunny Sunday
Hello Friends, Light north wind and a 7 second period NE wind swell of about 1.5 metres washing in for the Sunday early crew. It’s sunny as I write this, but the Bureau says we have an 80% chance of rain thanks to the arrival of a vigorous south change packing 20-30 kts of wind. […]
Wind aplenty
Hello Friends, The Bureau says we can expect the SW wind to be in the 25-30 kt range this morning. At 0645 it was 15-25, so they’ve nailed it. Overnight the swell has ramped up pretty sharply too. The MHL buoy was reporting an average height of the south swell at sea of close to […]
Curious lack of size
Hello Friends, Now, here’s a mystery. According to the MHL Sydney waverider buoy, the swell is dead south at a respectable three metres with an okay period of close to 9 seconds. And yet it’s only about waist to chest high at best along the Dee Why to No Man’s stretch. There were a couple […]
Grey, small and messy this morning
Afternoon update: Not much interesting going on at Dee Why or Curly when I checked while running an errand this afternoon. It’s not flat, but the swell’s definitely smaller and flabbier than it’s been since this time last week. Wind isn’t helping either. Tomorrow looks like being smaller again, but with better wind prospects. Could […]
Go early or go south-easterly
Hello Friends, The Bureau’s call is for SE wind today in the 15 kt range. As things got started this morning, swell was around two metres from the south at around 8 seconds apart. At Dee Why that means a few widely spaced waist to chest high things along the beach, and not much of […]
Grey skies and rain return to Sydney
Hello Friends, Another round of showers and so-so conditions for Sydney this morning. The ocean looks kinda junky and small which figures because the average period has dropped to around the 8 second mark. Swell is still coming from the SE and is averaging around 1.5 metres. This morning’s run of the WAMs is looking […]