thermalben, 1702000020
Water temps have today just cracked 27 degrees on the Gold and Tweed Coasts (yesterday on the Sunny Coast). Gladstone has been pushing 28 degrees this week.
I suspect it's probably just the skin layer not having much turnover due to a general lack of strength in the sea breezes this week.
Nuts.
[img]https://imgur.com/18p5eoh.jpg[/img]
donweather, 1702000654
Are these confirmed inshore also?
Sprout, 1702001135
Arvo swim was almost too warm yesterday.
Some nice little lines showing at Agnes.
https://www.swellnet.com/surfcams/agnes-water
https://www.gpcl.com.au/environment/live-beach-cameras/agnes-water-webcam/
Surfalot67, 1702002770
That looks super fun, even with the light onshore
freeride76, 1702003080
Going to be v. interesting too see how this steeper angled N/NE-NE swell shows.
It's quite uncommon, although we did have a similar angled swell in Feb from TC Gabrielle- which showed very unevenly but distinctly at some spots.
I think Jasper is in a better part of the swell window for this slow S/SW movement.
Craig, 1702003260
Me too, much better! And as you mentioned very slow moving.
donweather, 1702008707
He’s a compact little lad.
https://manati.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/ascat_images/cur_25km_METB/zooms/WMBas271.png
megzy151, 1702008711
Is it an absolute affirmative that Jasper is gonna cross the holy ghost?
dawnperiscope, 1702008729
Water is so warm.
Just when I thought I was starting to follow along nicely with your swell forecasting, I am befuddled looking at the wind forecast and trying to understand 4-6ft from the E-NE! The N-NE direction makes sense.
Is it a great circle path or refraction thing?
Looking at google earth its quite a needle the N-NE swell has to thread thru the reefs you mention. Fingers crossed!
AndyM, 1702017192
On a bit of a tangent.
Yesterday the water was clear and blue and warm.
Today, although the (offshore) buoy said 24.6 degrees, the water inshore was cooler, and dirty and green.
The wind has been roughly similar yesterday and today although there were some light to moderate northerlies from mid-afternoon into the evening before becoming light and then calm after 2000 hours.
So my question is, was this brief period of unimpressive northerlies enough to cause this dirty water inshore or is there something else at play?
Any takers?
Distracted, 1702019837
Bottom of the tide?
I’ve also seen pockets of cold weedy water get trapped between headlands. One side can be great, other side rubbish. So maybe a pool of colder water has got trapped in the corner there.
AndyM, 1702020029
Would have been halfway through the incoming.
pjbyron, 1702021190
So it's flat here (tweed coast/north byron) 6.30pm... am I still to wake in the morning to overhead waves?
donweather, 1702023865
He’s down to 938 hPa!!
seeds, 1702024337
Feet up Agnes boys and girls. Shark attack this arvo at 1770.
freeride76, 1702030174
No, give it some time to fill in.
Deffo some new energy in the morning though.
donweather, 1702031478
Saw that.
Danm, 1702031915
Jeepers just read the articles. Hope the surfer pulls through ok.
paulinoz, 1702080115
Latest maps have it crossing Qld and reforming in the Gulf of Carpentaria, before crossing the NT and reforming once again off the Kimberly coast. it will be interesting to see if it continues west or swings east once again after a southern detour to do a lap of Oz.
Pop Down, 1702090782
I just looked at the BOM site .
Looks like One High getting stuck in the middle of the Tasman for ...ever ?
Seems ....different !
edit - but not 100% sure what happened yesterday .
udo, 1702092425
Swell Def Starting to show on Aggie and Noosa Cams now..
Surfalot67, 1702095074
Very small still in Cooly. Nothing really showing yet
lostdoggy, 1702147812
1-2foot max dribble in Ballina still.
Fresh55, 1702154816
Is the swell late or coming undersized ?
Sunshine Coast is 3 foot.
thermalben, 1702173710
Super inco sets on the Tweed, occ 3-4ft and lumpy but OK with a light onshore breeze. Didn't really feel like a cyclone swell TBH.
pjbyron, 1702174047
Same but a little smaller here (20kms south of you), maybe shoulder high at best, seemed better on the higher tide, certainly not what was predicted.
lostdoggy, 1702174297
Looks like it’s starting to push in a little stronger at rainbow bay now.
pjbyron, 1702174904
It does, maybe my stretch of beach is missing the NE swell, suppose we face more straight E here.
Surfalot67, 1702192375
3-4' wide of Rainbow. Wind okay too
eat-your-vegies, 1702240943
I see that windy has the cyclone crossing up north and reforming nth of Darwin.
It’s been a interesting system.
eat-your-vegies, 1702252240
Ha ha and tropical tidbits has it reforming in the gulf of carpenteria , swinging back east over her own destruction then dashing down the coast flat out to our place …….. interesting.
udo, 1702272248
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-11/cyclone-jasper-willis-island-bom-emergency-evacuation/103213430
shraz, 1702272819
I reckon the rare N-NE swell can have an upwelling effect nearshore even if the wind is light
Surfalot67, 1702279579
Sheesh. Remember Oswald? That went on for ever
http://www.bom.gov.au/cyclone/history/Oswald.shtml
barreldodger, 1702285255
Barrier reef north of Cairns to the Cape is coping 2 meters of E to SE groundswell and W to Nw winds.
Love to know what's out there. 1000ks of shark infested reef passes firing up perhaps.