Summer. How's it lookin?

[bumfluff]

Diggs, I havn't got the day off, but will be there at first light if the she's offshore. If you've still got my number flick me a text if you're out.

[bumfluff]

Diggs, I may also be at Snapper...not sure yet, depends on conditions on the day!

[channels]

The wind forecast for the weekend has changed AGAIN. Now it's looking like Monday morning is the go and Sat and Sun will be SE.

The swell forecast has picked up a notch too though and is currently at 7 foot

Monday morning has 7 foot predicted and SW/WSW early. Sweet baby jesus...

Haven't you checked the Iggy scale....there is no such thing as 7 foot!

[bumfluff]

Fine. It's 8 foot then.

[jimmy]

Fine. It's 8 foot then.

Yeah which means you and your Tufflite will be heading for the hills!

[channels]

Fine. It's 8 foot then.

Yeah which means you and your Tufflite will be heading for the hills!

Unless of course you have learned to duckdive...8 foot surf without duck diving, should be fun to watch!

[bumfluff]

Fine. It's 8 foot then.

Yeah which means you and your Tufflite will be heading for the hills!

If it's really clean I'll go out, but it will be the biggest surf I've ever been in.

And the tufflite will be staying at home. Actually it's times like this I wish I had a 19 ft Olo of the Sun to take it to the next level.

[jimmy]

Fine. It's 8 foot then.

Yeah which means you and your Tufflite will be heading for the hills!

If it's really clean I'll go out, but it will be the biggest surf I've ever been in.

And the tufflite will be staying at home. Actually it's times like this I wish I had a 19 ft Olo of the Sun to take it to the next level.

Mong.

[bumfluff]

tuflites are the worst board in the world to surf in junky conditions Bumfluff.
Except tuflite minimals, they seem to go ok.

I go to great lengths to not surf in junky conditions on any board.

[Grooter]

Bass Strait is starting to resemble a lake...

So far the start to 2011 has been sh.ithouse here, lets hope it is not a sign of things in the year to come

[diggerdickson]

Hey don, people are talking about a cyclone coming just after australia day, any information on this mate, I havent had a chance to check it out and was wondering if you had heard anything about this.

[oldman]

Bass Strait is starting to resemble a lake...

So far the start to 2011 has been sh.ithouse here, lets hope it is not a sign of things in the year to come

I don't know much about where you are h-man, other than mexico, but there is a pretty handy onion forecast to develop under the great australian bight which will send swell to at least some parts of vic coast.

[alakaboo]

Hey don, people are talking about a cyclone coming just after australia day, any information on this mate, I havent had a chance to check it out and was wondering if you had heard anything about this.

Digger, I'm not a weather person, but I heard that too.
It's from a very long range run by a computer weather model (GFS), so it's probably not worth spit at the moment. The weather guy from Channel 9 is copping a fair bit of stick for mentioning it this early.
But it's an active coral sea, so you might get some waves for board testing day, hopefully without more rain.
And there's a fair bit of stuffing going on at the moment to generate swell for the east coast, without needing a crystal ball.

[oldman]

Nice to see that after this east/nor east swell starts to die down the NSW coast will be helping itself to a few more days of a new south swell.

[Trev]

Hey don, people are talking about a cyclone coming just after australia day, any information on this mate, I havent had a chance to check it out and was wondering if you had heard anything about this.

Digger, I'm not a weather person, but I heard that too.
It's from a very long range run by a computer weather model (GFS), so it's probably not worth spit at the moment. The weather guy from Channel 9 is copping a fair bit of stick for mentioning it this early.
But it's an active coral sea, so you might get some waves for board testing day, hopefully without more rain.
And there's a fair bit of stuffing going on at the moment to generate swell for the east coast, without needing a crystal ball.

Seems to be a goer now.

[alakaboo]

different system Trev.
As far as I read, the one spinning up now wasn't even though of, it was one that was coming up on the 21st.

[Trev]

So, two for us.
I have to work next week but not the week following Australia Day. Sounds good.

[Donweather]

Hey don, people are talking about a cyclone coming just after australia day, any information on this mate, I havent had a chance to check it out and was wondering if you had heard anything about this.

That weatherman is a fecking idiot. He posted a GFS map that was +368hrs away!!! I couldn't stop laughing at the ridiculous maps he was putting up and he then quoted a 30-40% chance of that chart coming off. What a tool. The chances of the chart that the dickhead weather man put up coming off would not be 30-40%. In fact it wouldn't even be 3-4%. In fact if those charts were progging a cyclone that far out, I'd put money on it that there wasn't going to be one off SE Qld on 28 Jan....and I'd be putting a lot of money on it!!! Media hype yet again and scare mongering.