The current southerly swell has held across Southern NSW nicely today, and should maintain a similar size across Northern NSW into Thursday morning as what we’ve seen this afternoon.
Primary tabs
However only Northern NSW will pick up any notable size from this progression; SE Qld looks like it’ll be out of the firing line so away from exposed northern ends it’ll be pretty small.
You will have to make the most of Saturday if you're planning to get wet at all.
Although the last 36 hours came in bigger than expected, I’m not expecting Thursday to over-perform in the size department.
Wednesday and Thursday have much better potential from this system.
Let’s quickly summarise SE Qld for the foreseeable future: very small at best.
A steady undercurrent of long period southerly swell will persist through Thursday, Friday and early Saturday.
We’ve got some good waves ahead for Northern NSW, but unfortunately most of SE Qld is looking at an extended spell of small conditions, thanks to an absence of weather systems in our eastern swell window.
We’ve got some large, powerful waves on the way for the weekend. The only concern I have is with the timing of the initial swell front on Saturday.
Whilst Thursday and Friday are motoring along with building S’ly swells, the primary Tasman Low - by this time just off the west coast of New Zealand’s South Island - is expected to reintensify, generating gale to storm force S thru’ S/SE winds that will kick up a large swell for Saturday.