TG’s Christmas Surf Forecast
The days now leading up to Christmas look like having waves of some sort. May not be top quality or at all places but better than nothing.
Winds may be blowy at times – another Southerly is expected by the Bureau for Monday – but light at others. Pick your time/s and place/s to get wet.
It looks like some traditional cracker Sydney Christmas weather ahead with sunshine and warm days, and enough movement in the water to try out all the new surfing toys Santa brings.
With Easterlies expected at times, some less welcome “traditonal” visitors – Bluebottles – might put in an appearance. TG saw a tasty one on the beach a day or so ago.
Best treatment – carefully pull off any blue stingers left on the skin with the tips of your fingers (you wont get stung). Wash sting site with hot water or a hot shower. Rinse in cold water if no hot is available. Sit and rest in the shade. If things start to feel worse, get help from surf lifesavers/lifeguards if you’re at a patrolled beach, or get someone to take you to a medical centre or hospital.
Friday: around 1-1+ metres South East
Saturday: ditto East South East
Sunday: ditto ditto
Monday: similar or a bit more from the North East, ahead of a southerly change, which will mess conditions around and start to bring up the sell briefly at places open to the South
Tuesday: somehwere in the 1-2 metre range at places open to due South
Wednesday: Christmas day: easing back a bit, say 1-1+ metres at places open to the South. less wind and small at protected corners
Thursday: Boxing Day (Sydney Hobart start light/ North East winds expected) somewhere around 1-1+ metres South South East
TG’s Christmas Message
Merry Christmas to everyone! Chill out in the Surf. Relax in the shade. Catch up with and enjoy family and friends if you can.
If you’re nort experienced, don’t swim at unpatrolled beaches – eg in National Parks. Statistics show that’s where nearly all drownings on the NSW coastline occur. Swim at the flags at patrolled beaches. Experience over the past 100 plus years shows that is the safest place to swim on our active surf coastline.
Have Fun and stay safe!
TG
http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/charts/4day_col.shtml
https://www.windy.com/-33.850/151.220?-34.364,151.221,8
https://www.nsw.gov.au/sites/default/files/2024-06/tide-tables-24-25-nsw.pdf
Partly cloudy. Winds south to southeasterly 15 to 25 km/h becoming light in the late evening.
Sun protection recommended from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm, UV Index predicted to reach 12 [Extreme]
Sunny. Winds southwesterly 15 to 20 km/h turning south to southeasterly in the morning then becoming light in the evening.
Fire Danger – Moderate
Sun protection recommended from 8:40 am to 5:00 pm, UV Index predicted to reach 11 [Extreme]
Mostly sunny. The chance of fog in the outer west in the early morning. Slight chance of a shower in the west, near zero chance elsewhere. The chance of a thunderstorm in the afternoon and evening. Light winds becoming east to southeasterly 15 to 20 km/h in the middle of the day then becoming light in the evening.
Sun protection recommended from 8:40 am to 4:50 pm, UV Index predicted to reach 11 [Extreme]
Partly cloudy. Slight chance of a shower. The chance of a thunderstorm. Light winds becoming east to northeasterly 20 to 30 km/h during the day then becoming light during the evening.
Sun protection recommended from 8:40 am to 5:00 pm, UV Index predicted to reach 11 [Extreme]
Mostly sunny. Light winds becoming west to southwesterly 20 to 30 km/h during the morning then tending south to southwesterly 25 to 35 km/h during the afternoon.
Mostly sunny. Winds southwesterly 15 to 20 km/h turning southeasterly 15 to 25 km/h during the day.
Mostly sunny. Light winds becoming easterly 15 to 25 km/h during the day.
Sunny. Light winds becoming northeasterly 15 to 25 km/h during the day
