The only saving grace is Saturday morning - and only in the Lower Mid North Coast - where a weak, shallow and ultimately dissipating trough is likely to arrest the northerly flow in that next of the woods through the morning.
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The headline says it all!
Strong northerly winds will write off surf conditions just about everywhere on Saturday.
Thursday is the pick of the forecast period, mainly due to a strengthening northerly airstream that’s going to ruin conditions at most locations from Friday thru’ the weekend.
Lots of swell due this week - nothing overly large but with several swell windows firing up and winds looking favourable for brief periods, there should be some good surf just about everywhere at some stage.
A few more lil’ tweaks to the weekend forecast.
There’s been a slight improvement to the weekend outlook, but only just. The west-east movement of weather patterns across our region seems to have slowed slightly in the last few model runs, which will benefit us in a couple of ways.
The surf outlook for the rest of the week is fairly simple - from Tuesday onwards wave heights will trend downwards, and conditions will generally deteriorate as the northerly regime redevelops across the coast.
Local winds will heavily dictate the weekend’s surfability.
A strong, long period southerly groundswell is moving across the southern NSW coast at the moment, of which the leading edge should be pushing into the lower Mid North Coast at the moment.