Messy Wednesday but lots of energy
Hello Friends,
Eight to 10 knots of southerly wind from the get go this morning and a complex mix of S-SE swell in the 10-second range along with a declining 12-sec E-NE component were adding up to pretty chaotic looking conditions at Dee Why when I checked just before 0800. As you can see from the pics, there were plenty of people in the water, but they were doing a lot of waiting around in the junky conditions. Tide was coming off the 0445 low and is now headed toward a very swampy 1.8 metre high at 1120. I’d still wouldn’t recommend it to beginners, but for reasonably experienced riders it should be ok for a paddle.
By tomorrow we should be back to more typical spring conditions with a mix of shortish period SE bumps and weak onshores for the early.
Go well!
Weather Situation
Fresh southerly winds will gradually ease and become southeasterly over the coming days as a ridge of high pressure develops along the New South Wales coast. Winds will then become east to northeasterly by the latter part of the week as a trough develops over the inland New South Wales.
Forecast for Wednesday until midnight
- Winds
- Southerly 10 to 15 knots.
- Seas
- Around 1 metre.
- 1st Swell
- Southerly 2 to 3 metres, decreasing to 2 metres during the afternoon.
- 2nd Swell
- Easterly 1.5 metres, decreasing to around 1 metre during the morning.
- Weather
- Mostly sunny.
Thursday 2 November
- Winds
- Southerly 10 to 15 knots turning east to southeasterly below 10 knots in the early afternoon.
- Seas
- Below 1 metre.
- Swell
- Southerly 1.5 to 2 metres.
- Weather
- Partly cloudy.
Friday 3 November
- Winds
- Variable below 10 knots becoming east to northeasterly 10 to 15 knots during the afternoon.
- Seas
- Around 1 metre.
- Swell
- Southerly 1.5 metres.
- Weather
- Cloudy.