Windy Week for KZN by Adam Kamdar, 7 am, 15 Oct: It’s the weekly October showdown between the north and south winds, the high-pressures vs. the low-pressures.
Over to Adam…
Durban
Thank you Adam! And also for the colourful gallery from this bright and breezy morning…
The big SSW swell that is running today doesn’t quite turn the corner tight enough to get into the Durban pier beaches.
Synopsis
During October in KZN we are stuck in a battle zone between the north and south winds. High-pressures vs Low-pressures. An ongoing showdown that can result in some really weird and windy weather scenarios.
Like today!
We have a bona fide Monkey’s Wedding going on on the KZN South Coast. It is sunny skies, rain and rainbows right now. Spectacular. Complemented by the stiff south wind blowing in from the colder climes, and a lively south swell meant to be up to 5m out deep today.
Quite a show!
Durban misses these big open ocean swells. But from the beach, you can clearly see them out there. Marching past like elephants in a real hurry. Pitched against the prevailing south-to-north flowing Agulhas Current, these swells stand right up.
Today is not a day to be deep-sea fishing or anything of the sort.
These are inclement conditions for shipping too. And the main reason that Lloyds of London Shipping Insurance would not ever insure any ships out off the Wild Coast. These waters are where an inordinate amount of wind and swell energy winds up. Turning the ocean into one big pothole. It was on a day like today that the cruise ship the Oceanos succumbed. Read the full story right here: https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/sunday-tribune-south-africa/20170226/281870118214303
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Sardines n Sighting Maps
It has been a fantastic sardine run this memorable 2024. And all the action has been logged right here on The Sardine News. This year’s map has been viewed 187,000 times and keeps growing.
Which led us to decide to keep the map live. And keep adding unique marine animal sightings and events. That occurs non-stop all year round. This year we started to log more whale and dolphin sightings. And we even had a shipwreck! And a freaking tornado! And recently a capsized KZNSB boat!
These events will from now on be included in the Sardine News Sightings Map for 2024. And on the 1 January 2025, we shall start all over again.
Here are the links to existing and past Sardine Sighting Maps. Great for a windy day like today to research. With instructions to install The Sardine News right on your phone or desktop.
Monday More Fun Day for KZN Surfers by Adam Kamdar in Surf City
Monday More Fun Day for KZN Surfers by Adam Kamdar in Surf City: Welcome back to the sardine news. We have Adam Kamdar checking from what has turned out to be another surfing day in KZN and Durban in particular.
Over to Adam Kandar at North Beach in Surf City…
Durban
Monday More Fun Day for Surfers in KZN by Adam Kamdar on the Spot at North Beach in the famous Surf City that is Durban in South Africa.
Good time to be a surfer as the swell promises to build all day long. And reach a massive pulse tomorrow. Up to 5 meters at the crack of dawn! Obviously for this time of the year, the wind has agreed to join the party and will be cranking through at an enormous rate of knots.
SW
Gusts of up to 40 knots, which equates to like 80kmh, will punctuate the strong south-westerly tomorrow too. It looks to be at least 15 or 20 knots all day long. Only backing off on Tuesday night.
NE
The northeaster is plotting its big comeback from Wednesday morning and into Thursday all day. It’s gonna come charging in as early as it can, and will steadily build all day long reaching a maximum of about 15 knots in the afternoon.
With a low tide at 8:45am on Wednesday, that morning is going to produce the goods for any surfers who can make it out through that pounding surf. Before the NE makes it too bumpy.
And although Durban will get some SW juice that day, it will be nothing like what the south and north coasts will look like that morning. Lines to the horizon and light winds until the tide turns. As the tide turns from low to high water moving in – that’s about when the onshore NE will start to pick up. Before that, the tide will be draining fast and little offshores will spring up all over to compensate for the fast-receding water and therefore air pressure. As the tide drains, it sucks air off the land to create those regional and sporadic offshores, in the face of prevailing high pressure systems. The east ruins this quicksmart so you got to get in early as possible in these situations.
Fishing
The fishing has been excellent everywhere. Kob and garrick making up for most of the excitement. With the odd handsome brushed in between. We will see exactly what fish are about with the Bear Report coming in later today. This valuable information will be posted right here on The Sardine News at around 5pm.
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Gallery
Sardines n Sighting Maps
It has been a fantastic sardine run this memorable 2024. And all the action has been logged right here on The Sardine News. This year’s map has been viewed 185,000 times and keeps growing.
Which led us to decide to keep the map live. And keep adding unique marine animal sightings and events. That occurs non-stop all year round. This year we started to log more whale and dolphin sightings. And we even had a shipwreck! And a freaking tornado!
These events will from now on be included in the Sardine News Sightings Map for 2024. And on the 1 January 2025, we shall start all over again.
Here are the links to existing and past Sardine Sighting Maps. Great for a windy day like today to research. With instructions to install The Sardine News right on your phone or desktop.
Mannie Jorreiro tells all from Coffee Bay in the Deep Kei. Fishing and Surfing Report.
Mannie Jorreiro tells all from Coffee Bay in the Deep Kei. Fishing and Surfing Report.: Welcome back To the Sardine News. We are starting today off all the way down in Coffee Bay, deep Kei. Where Pro Fishing Guide Mannie Jorreiro is on the beach every morning.
It’s so cool having a new Sardine Spy onboard! Mannie is right In the thick of it down in Coffee Bay. Mbomvu to be exact. Which is like right next door to Coffee Bay.
Mannie is a Pro Fishing Guide for the area so please consider getting in touch if you are headed to Coffee Bay or surrounds. We can arrange guided fishing trips and accommodation in the right places. Sean on +27793269671 or umzimkulu@gmail.com.
Mannie catches a lot of fish. Watch this space!
Over to Adam Kandar in Durban…
Durban
Adam greets the South Wind coming in at Durban today 7am 11 October 2024: Ok back in Durban we have a sneaky little pair of low pressures holding back the east today. Adam Kamdar is on the scene early and reports on an unruly ocean today.
But with plenty of potential for the weekend as indicators indicate low swells, low winds and sunny skies!
All you have to do is choose a beach!
Thank you Adam.
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Sharks Board Upside Down at Isipingo
Who needs protecting from who?
Sharks Board Capsize at Isipingo in rough seas this morning – but who was swimming anyway?
With the recent great white shark tail washing up on the rocks at St Mike’s on the KZN South Coast recently, the Kwazulu Natal Sharks Board once again put themselves under the spotlight.
And today, they capsized an expensive vessel. With five souls on board. On a day when nobody should be in or on the water.
Anybody following the Sardine Reports would know that the swell is an unruly 2m plus. The wind is ugly as hell onshore. These two factors combined means that nobody should go out there. For anything. Least of all to mesh shark nets that kill dolphins, whales and great whites. Tigers too. Turtles. Rays. This is a very long list and you can read all about it on the Sardine News.
4PM Scotties 11 Oct 24 Ocean Coming Right by Cliff Bamber Beach Report
Cliff rounds the day off very nicely indeed!
Sardines n Sighting Maps
It has been a fantastic sardine run this memorable 2024. And all the action has been logged right here on The Sardine News. This year’s map has been viewed 185,000 times and keeps growing.
Which led us to decide to keep the map live. And keep adding unique marine animal sightings and events. That occurs non-stop all year round. This year we started to log more whale and dolphin sightings. And we even had a shipwreck! And a freaking tornado!
These events will from now on be included in the Sardine News Sightings Map for 2024. And on the 1 January 2025, we shall start all over again.
Here are the links to existing and past Sardine Sighting Maps. Great for a windy day like today to research. With instructions to install The Sardine News right on your phone or desktop.
7am 9 Oct 2024 Nobody in or on the Ocean Today as the East churns the Sea to Mush by Adam Kamdar
7am 9 Oct 2024 Nobody in or on the Ocean Today as the East churns the Sea to Mush by Adam Kamdar: The east winds are not very good for the state of the ocean. Sure, if they just blow lightly and behave themselves then, yes, we can handle that. But when they get unruly and angry…like they are today, the sea becomes a very uncomfortable place to be.
Over to Adam who is on the spot…
And dangerous…
There is a strong groundswell running today. Featuring a powerful primary southwest swell and a secondary east bump. These combine to form formidable surf conditions to anyone who dares go near this particularly dangerous set of conditions.
Superpositioning of waves is when two troughs, or peaks, of a swell, combine. This combination can double the height of the wave at that moment. Making for some serious waves and deep holes. That you can disappear into.
‘The ocean is not always your friend’ – said Vloei (Boland Spearo)
These are wise words and so when the east is blowing a gale like it will today, and an unorganised and powerful swell is moving right in shallow, rather don’t go anywhere near those waves.
The good news is that eventually the winds will run out of high pressure and the low-pressure south winds will come and paint the ocean pretty again. This is forecast for Friday. Leaving us a darling KZN weekend ahead.
We still have a few units available at the Umzimkulu Marina (Sheppy) where the estuary gamefish season is in full swing. Contact Sean on +27793269671 or umzimkulu@gmail.com anytime to talk about getting stuck into the garrick, kingfish, kob, rock salmon, perch, grunter and more that are waiting for your live bait. This last weekend we had angler Angus Gibson bag a proper garrick right at the jetty. Full story on umzimkuluadrenalin.co.za.
Sardines n Sighting Maps
It has been a fantastic sardine run this memorable 2024. And all the action has been logged right here on The Sardine News. This year’s map has been viewed 185,000 times and keeps growing.
Which led us to decide to keep the map live. And keep adding unique marine animal sightings and events. That occurs non-stop all year round. This year we started to log more whale and dolphin sightings. And we even had a shipwreck! And a freaking tornado!
These events will from now on be included in the Sardine News Sightings Map for 2024. And on the 1 January 2025, we shall start all over again.
Here are the links to existing and past Sardine Sighting Maps. Great for a windy day like today to research. With instructions to install The Sardine News right on your phone or desktop.
Surfers Getting Wet Today But Its Clearing Fast by Adam Kamdar Durban Beachfront 7am 8 October 2024
Surfers Getting Wet Today But Its Clearing Fast by Adam Kamdar Durban Beachfront 7am 8 October 2024: Getting wet in the rain doesn’t work for some. But our readers love getting wet. Like the surfers out there in the rain. Loving life! There are ski-boats catching garrick off Blue Lagoon all morning today. And the divers, well let’s just say they are always wet!
Over to Adam Kamdar from the beach in Durban…
Thank you to Adam of Township Hyper for this report…
And for the cool Durban gallery this morning…
High Pressure
Fortunately for our sun worshippers, we are still in a prevailing high-pressure system sitting right along the entire coastline. We should clear up fast.
You might notice that we have been including a synoptic chart in our Heads Up Display on our daily video reports recently. If you can keep the image of the synoptic current in your head, you will be able to far more reliably see what’s coming.
It seems the weather forecasters recently have been resorting to manipulating forecasts in order to get more views (people are like 100x more inclined to click on bad news repeatedly). Then they change the model that they use (there are more than 6 commercially available weather models – all work slightly different and produce different results). Or more likely they simply choose the model that suits their revenue requirements for that week. Monitor this for yourselves, and then comment below after your have experienced it for a while.
There does seem to be some revenge being cooked up in the southwest way off of Cape Town. This is the time of the year that cold fronts can accelerate and join up with others. Check the synoptic for what is possibly headed our way. Should take about a week or so to hit Cape Town. And an other week to get to us.
Sardines n Sighting Maps
It has been a fantastic sardine run this memorable 2024. And all the action has been logged right here on The Sardine News. This year’s map has been viewed 185,000 times and keeps growing.
Which led us to decide to keep the map live. And keep adding unique marine animal sightings and events. That occurs non-stop all year round. This year we started to log more whale and dolphin sightings. And we even had a shipwreck! And a freaking tornado!
These events will from now on be included in the Sardine News Sightings Map for 2024. And on the 1 January 2025, we shall start all over again.
Here are the links to existing and past Sardine Sighting Maps. Great for chilly day like today to research. With instructions to install The Sardine News right on your phone or desktop.
