Major revisions are required for the impending easterly swell this week, which is a bummer.
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In short: small beach breaks Tuesday and Wednesday, with building E’ly swells Thursday reaching a peak Friday - but with generally moderate to fresh E/SE winds.
On Sunday, the NE windswell and short range S’ly swell will have all but disappeared, only to be replaced by a better southerly groundswell generated by the parent low to Saturday’s change.
Today’s southerly groundswell will ease throughout Thursday, but occasional 2-3ft sets are still likely at Northern NSW south swell magnets in the morning, particularly in the Far North.
Freshening northerly quadrant winds and slowly easing swells are the main ingredient for the entire week.
It’s a simple trend over the weekend - slowly easing E’ly groundswell, and more steadily easing short range SE swell.
Without regurgitating the same analysis as previous forecasts, it’s probably worth honing in some specific points about the upcoming swell(s), so that expectations are kept in check.
All in all, this is a very good swell and wind pattern for December in SE Qld.
As for the late-next-week-thru’-weekend peak in easterly groundswell: early indications are that we’ve got a great run of solid surf on target for the points.
Nothing amazing is expected this weekend, but there’ll be some fun small waves about most coasts.