Amazing sunrise and the old sailors saying “red sky at morning, sailors take warning”, will hold true as a complex low forms off the NSW coast today, moving North by north west into tomorrow and generating sizeable S/SSE swell for the weekend. For now though we’ve got the last of small clean surf with a [...]
Gloriously fresh and cool autumn morning here after a terrific band of storms rolled through last night. Winds are offshore and we’ve got small clean lines in the 2ft or so range. Worth a squizz around the bottom of the tide to see whats up after the swell. Offshore winds should linger [...]
That groundswell that produced so much tubular joy over the weekend and yesterday is hanging in there but northerly winds yesterday have left a weird bit of cross hatching running across it. Winds are offshore now but the scars of yesterdays nor-easter are still on it and may not clean up before winds puff up [...]
What a grand old day yesterday was with pumping E swell and offshores that lingered right through the day. Great day. We saw an easing trend through yesterday afternoon and that easing has continued into this morning. There’s still some solid sets in the 4ft+ range but there are becoming fewer and further apart and [...]
Finally, we have a morning with swell and offshores. A dead-set autumn classic. Winds have been offshore all night so the close-spaced punchy E swell is clean as a whistle. Size is in the 3-5ft range with bigger 6ft bombs from time to time. Looks like plenty of sunshine once the sun gets over the [...]
Surf has come up as expected with around 4ft or so of fairly stormy E swell and accompanying SE/ESE winds. Thats making a mess of things on this stretch of SE facing coast but all the protected NE facing points should have good surf today. Expect crowds and a building swell during the day. Savvy [...]
A trough is deepening off the QLD coast and this is really revving up the onshore flow as pressure gradients tighten between the trough/low and a large high moving into the Tasman. This classic squeezeplay will see a couple of days of strengthening SE/ESE winds and building swell from the E. At the [...]
Another cool, cloudy morning with a few drops of rain falling. Surf-wise it’s just more of the same small clean surf in the 2ft range. There is some shape around with the consistent regime of small surf now starting to sculpt some shapely little sandbars. I can’t quite manage to get excited about it but [...]
It’s coming down in buckets here this morning, just a real good old fashioned soaking. Which we need like a hole in the head. The culprit is a weak upper trough and the interplay of warm water off the coast (remember that cloud bank sitting offshore every morning?). Anyhow, there isn’t much surf to speak [...]
Cloud bank out to sea: check. Light offshore: check. Small powerless peaky swell: check. This autumn rolls on. By my calculations, as we near the half way mark we’ve had two or three days above 2-3ft…..and that was in the wake of ex TC Sandra. Surely there’s got to be some real juice on the [...]
