It’s quite a benign pattern right now with nothing of any great interest standing up in the charts. There are some windows of opportunity though.
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A trough sliding up the coast this afternoon is a bit of an annoyance. It’s both disrupting the northerly fetch generating our local swell (which will lead to a drop in size through Thursday and Friday), and is also steering the Southern Ocean storm track away from our south swell window. It’s also not bringing any local southerly swell either.
Unfortunately, the synoptic change that brought this initial swell forward has had a negative impact on the short term outlook, as it’s steered some of the trailing systems away from our swell window.
There’s not a lot of action expected this weekend. And we’ve got a complex wind outlook for Saturday too.
Freshening NE winds will create a few problems throughout Thursday. And it looks like a tricky weekend ahead. Friday morning is your best friend!
I’m not too impressed by the coming surf this week.
We’ve got a weekend of two halves. And a bucketload of swell on tap for next week.
The dropping size will be a little slower than normal because a modest secondary fetch is develop around the (decaying) Tasman Low
We’ve got some incredible waves ahead.
Troughs, fronts and a brand new Tasman Low will generate swells from the NE, S and SE over the forecast period.