Not exactly a ripper
Hello Friends, Not much of anything showing at Dee Why this morning. Wind went around to the SSW earlier and the weak windswell seems to have tracked around to south as well. The models are suggesting that we should see a slight improvement (ie, it might get surfable) over the next day or two. But […]
Holding pattern day
Hello Friends, Still going sideways where the lack of surf’s concerned. Another beautiful morning with clear skies and a faint offshore breeze. But there’s not much more than a metre of 6s period windswell out at sea, so absolutely nothing is getting into Dee Why. There is no real prospect of improvement for today that […]
Midday update: still tiny
Hello Friends, Had to run an errand around lunchtime, so I stopped by Long Reef to see if I could detect any sign of the expected swell. There were a few bods in the water, but the wind was icy and strong, and worse, the waves were about as small as it’s possible to surf. […]
Saturday finishes up
1040pm: no one will read this I imagine… but MHL is spiking up. Latest shows south swell building toward 2 metre mark and average period at 11 seconds! Looking extremely good for waves in the morning… Hello Friends, Went for a wander with the test camera from Sony (the a900) around dusk. Headed down to […]
Grey skies, nothing but grey skies do I see
Hello Friends, That muffled thump you heard overnight was Huey falling into a stupor. He started looking under the weather at around lunchtime yesterday when the average period of our little ESE windswell started to drop from a barely adequate 8 seconds. Overnight the power setting has slipped down to 6 seconds. And just to […]
Grey morning, warming up later
Hello Friends, The best news of the day is that the folks at Manly Hydraulic Labs have stuck some new batteries in the Sydney waverider buoy. That means after several weeks, we’re once again getting live data about sea conditions offshore. Sadly, this morning, the data isn’t exactly inspiring. There’s about a metre of SE […]
Sunny breaks on Sunday
Midday, checked the beaches when out and about on errands. Gee there were a lot of cars on the road. Wind was kinda east, so both sides of Longy were messy and weakly junky. Still, there were a few folks in catching knee to waist high crumblers on a lovely warm spring day. Gardens looked […]
Grey start & small
Hello Friends, We started out with a fair amount of cloud overhead, but the Bureau has promised us lengthy sunny periods and a high of around 25 on the coast. Yesterday morning’s little SSE pulse rolled off pretty smartly by close of play yesterday. It went from a metre at 10 sec around mid-morning, to […]
Not yet for Dee Why
Hello Friends, Dee Why isn’t exactly a picture this morning. Cloudy skies, cool, tiny, and dribbly windswell of such inconsequentiality that there are no takers. Plus, that very suss looking water that Rob alerted us to a couple days ago, looks like it might be back. Hard to tell for sure under the cloudy skies. […]
Drizzle and no sizzle
Hello Friends, Sad to say it’s starting out as a dull old day. Like many of you, I awoke to the sound of fitfully dribbling downpipes and grey skies. The wind is not much of a factor but it’s due to ramp up later and be in the 20-30 kt range from S-SW by this […]