Mix of S'ly and S/SE swells tomorrow, clean and easing Friday with a large new long-period S'ly groundswell Saturday morning, easing into Sunday morning, with a fresh pulse for Monday morning and plenty more next week.
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Large S/SE groundswell pulse tomorrow morning, easing off into the afternoon, with a mix of smaller reinforcing S/SE and S swells through the end of the week. Strong new S'ly groundswell Saturday morning.
Small background swell tomorrow with a new acute S'ly swell Sunday south of Byron. Temporary drop in size Monday morning, with a better S/SE swell for Tuesday morning with workable winds in the morning.
Sunday’s shaping up to deliver very large S’ly swells in Northern NSW though only protected locations will offer anything worthwhile.
Most mornings this week look fun across Northern NSW thanks to the east swell, and SE Qld is probably going to deliver the best waves Wednesday and Thursday.
The only window of opportunity for a dawn patrol Saturday morning will be along the Sunshine Coast.
A long range E’ly groundswell mentioned in Monday’s notes is still a possibility for Friday, generated by a deep sub tropical low well south of Tahiti over the weekend.
The only interruption to this is a possible long range E’ly swell from a deep subtropical low well east of New Zealand (and south of Tahiti) today.
The current southerly change is interacting with a trough well south of New Caledonia, and is expected to broaden and deepen a low pressure system west of Auckland tonight, with a wide fetch of southerly gales on its western flank.
A strong ridge will develop through the Tasman Sea in the way of Friday’s gusty S’lies, and this will generate strong S/SE swells for the region this weekend.