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Steve Shearer (freeride76)

The current synoptic situation has a Groundhog Day feel to it, with another very weak high pressure cell in the Tasman (1019hPa), directing a mod N’ly flow along the temperate NSW coastline, with a weak Tradewind flow in the Coral Sea.

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stunet Monday, 6 Jan 2025 at 11:13am

Tiny NE wavelets yesterday morning built into small, short period waves yesterday afternoon.

Small but surfable...just.

Thirty minutes into the session a local kid paddled out, we said g'day, and then he commented on how good the surf was. I didn't know how to reply, had to look in his eyes for traces of irony, but didn't find any. He was serious.

When 2 foot, 5 second period waves pass as good you know the situation is dire.

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ruckus Monday, 6 Jan 2025 at 11:25am

The eternal grom..

But yeah it’s Dire Straights out there

I’m listening to the opening of Money for Nothing on repeat just to survive the days

Burning the hours until better days

The eternal optimism in me is certainly wearing thin

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Nick Gee Monday, 6 Jan 2025 at 5:17pm

haha.... awesome. i vaguely remember being a grom (almost easier than when we had decent waves) and being psyched just to be in the water, no matter the conditions. salad days.

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Parko_70 Monday, 6 Jan 2025 at 12:41pm

Worst run of waves in years, and no end in sight. Autumn and Winter can't come soon enough...

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MrBungle Monday, 6 Jan 2025 at 2:22pm

At least there will be plenty of sand for Autumn...

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Thegrowingtrend.com Monday, 6 Jan 2025 at 6:29pm

im sick of land lubers. absolute twats... Come on Huey

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bbbird Monday, 6 Jan 2025 at 6:59pm

Keep swimming... you never know when you'll need that extra effort when the swell picks up.

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sean killen Monday, 6 Jan 2025 at 9:03pm

Had a grovel this morning in shit wind swell 1.5 ft people’ walked the full length of beach and back again I still didn’t catch a wave ( 3 in 45mins ) can’t wait to look back and laugh about this period one day..

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Pops Tuesday, 7 Jan 2025 at 11:43am

Almost enough to make you drive to homebush.

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sean killen Tuesday, 7 Jan 2025 at 3:31pm

sad but true pops

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JMC Tuesday, 7 Jan 2025 at 6:57pm

Any thoughts on the low just off the ice shelf under NZ. Swell producer? Not perfectly aligned but I would have thought we might see some lines from this

https://www.metvuw.com/forecast/2025010700/rain-swp-2025010700-006.gif

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stunet Tuesday, 7 Jan 2025 at 7:58pm

Looks good in snapshot but I think it's moving west to east too quickly.

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freeride76 Tuesday, 7 Jan 2025 at 8:03pm

Most of that energy is aimed at NZ and Pacific targets, and it moves Eastwards pretty quickly.

It's possible with a small p we may see some lines from it.