Sullen and southerly

Hello Friends,

The wind went southerly last night and as of 0730 it was 17-26 kts under grey skies. Swell is beginning to build. At 0500 the MHL buoy was detecting 3.2 metres at 12 seconds from the south. The buoy off Port Kembla was seeing 4.8 metres, so the Bureau’s call for swell to peak this afternoon is looking pretty plausible.

As you can see from the pics (taken around 0900), the swell isn’t looking too intimidating yet. No one was in the water at the point, nor along the beach. In fact, the only people I could see playing with natural energy were a few kitesurfers chasing choppy lumps out the back at Longy.

The Bureau tells us the cloud will clear later today, which is nice. But the wind isn’t going away, in fact it’s due to swing SE as the skies clear, so it’s not looking super hopeful for the afternoon session.

It looks as though the swell will peak overnight, but still be pretty solid tomorrow morning when, the Bureau tells us, we can expect light winds and partly cloudy skies. Both the GFS and ECMWF swell models continue to show reasonable south swell energy through Thursday – along with light wind for the early sessions.

Have a great Monday!

Kite surfers chasing the swell at Longy