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Back home to little waves

Hello Friends, Actually landed back home yesterday, but it was a sorta jet-laggy haze. This morning the brain seems to be coming back up to speed (hooray for coffee!) and it looks like there’s a little windswell energy about. It’s coming mainly from the east according to the MHL buoy. Offshore the average height is […]

Very small this morning

    Hello Friends, A mostly sunny day for Sydney this Tuesday. The marine forecast is calling for NE sea breezes developing during the morning and by late afternoon should be into the 15-20 kt range. Given the metre or so of 7 second period east wind swell, I guess we can hope that it […]

Goin’ quiet

Hello Friends, Light north breeze and a small, but not miniscule east wind swell for Sydney this morning. Dial the expectation-o-meter down pretty low and you should be able to talk yourself into a splash at your favourite beach break. Figure knee high to maybe waist on the bombs I’d say. The Bureau sez: North […]

Hello Friends, Looks as though the primary swell direction has shifted to the east overnight. “Swell” might be too big a word for a metre at 7 seconds apart though. High tide’s about 0730 and wind’s comparatively light from the E to SE along the Sydney coast as the day gets rolling. While today looks […]

Nup, nothin’ doin’ at Dee Why

Hello Friends, 90 percent chance of rain says the Bureau, and it feels like it too. An 0730 high tide was doing nothing to assist an already very feeble little east wind swell. Energy levels are so low that I couldn’t really see a line as such. There was a hint of froth around the […]

Not totally hopeless, just almost totally hopeless

Hello Friends, Hazy, mainly overcast morning with light south wind and a weak 7 second period east wind swell producing knee to waist high dribbles at Dee Why. You’ll need to be extra keen, but at least it is not totally flat. The wind should settle into a NE by mid-morning and be hammering along […]

Sunny Monday morning with not much happening

Hello Friends, It was calm as Monday got started, but the Bureau says the wind will be out of the south to SE around noon as a south change comes through. By this evening the call is for 20-25 of south to SE wind. Early risers were greeted with weak and small easterly conditions. No […]

The hot and the not so hot

Hello Friends, Only a trickle of east swell to work with this morning. Throw in nearly 2 metres of tide at around 1030, and the look is very fat and full. But it isn’t totally flat, so if you are extra keen – or if you just need any excuse to cool off (it was […]

No southerly for the early, but it’s coming

Hello Friends, I was pleasantly surprised to discover that the Bureau’s overnight call for early morning southerlies wasn’t quite right. Early risers were treated to glassy, waist high sets at spots that like a bit of east. There’s nothing remarkable about the numbers (the MHL buoy is showing around a metre of 7 second east […]

Drizzly day in Sydney

Hello Friends, The Bureau got the precipitation prediction right this morning but the overnight call for brisk winds this morning, missed the mark. So, it was glassy along the Collaroy-Narrabeen and Dee Why-Longy stretches – which is a good thing because the tide was high at 0640 and the little wind swell was just barely making itself […]