Friday
Weather
Fresh force 5 WSW’ly winds will bring marginally lower temperatures than of late, with just 15°C being the early afternoon max in Town. The brightest skies will be during the morning and then the cloud will thicken up early afternoon, before we see a spell of persistent rain between around 3pm and dusk.
Surf and the Water
With only sloppy 2-3 foot waves, the surf really isn’t going to be anything special. However, the lunchtime and early afternoon winds should be strong enough for the kite-surfers and windsurfers to have a good time, just as the tide start dropping away from its 7.5m high.
Saturday
Weather
Whilst Wednesday was probably the wettest day of this week, Saturday is sure to be the windiest. We will have a force 5-6 SSW’ly blowing for the vast majority of the day and night, but for a short time in the afternoon we might get up to force 7-8. The quality of the weather will go downhill in sync with the wind, with the morning being rather cloudy but dry, before a proper dose of heavy rain affects us from mid-afternoon until late evening.
Surf and the Water
The waves should steadily increase from about 2 feet at dawn to 6 feet by dusk, the wind an excellent direction throughout, but very difficult to manage on account of its strength. The tidal range nice and small, with a lunchtime high of just 7m.
Sunday
Weather
An intermittent pattern of sunshine, showers and numerous beautiful rainbows. The wind a force 5-6 SW’ly for the majority of the day, then veering W’ly overnight.
Surf and the Water
Cleanish 6-8 foot surf on the west coast, and maybe some super-clean 1-2 foot waves on the north coast. Once again, the tide will peak at roughly 7m, this time at 1:50pm.
Next Week
Weather
A ridge of high pressure should soon kill off any showers on Monday, allowing plentiful sunshine but with a rather chilly W’ly breeze. However, showers and longer spells of rain will be back with a vengeance on Tuesday, and then gale force winds will be with us for Tuesday night and the majority of Wednesday. All that action comes courtesy of ex-hurricane Epsilon, who is currently expected to pile into the far northwest of the British Isles, as an extremely deep low-pressure system. Then, with a very powerful Jet-stream running across the north Atlantic, we will see at least another couple of very deep lows through Thursday, Friday and the weekend. At the moment, it looks as though at least one of these depressions (probably two) will become a named storm(s) on account of the damage that they will do to the UK and Ireland. However, here in the English Channel, we are quite a long way from the action, so yes it will be unsettled but probably nothing particularly out of the ordinary.
Surf and Tide
Lots of surf, possibly rather massive at times, so there should be some north-coast sessions mixed in with the usual west-coast ones. Small tides at the beginning of the week, picking up to medium-large by Thursday and Friday.
The next forecast update should be with you on Sunday evening...
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