The surf will remain oversized across NSW the coming days, easing slowly through the weekend and winds will continue to favour protected breaks until Sunday.
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A 'bombing low' will deliver an oversized and prolonged south-southeast swell event for the northern NSW coast, with no lack of size across south-east Queensland breaks exposed to the energy.
So, next week’s looking pretty dynamic, eh? I’ve been talking about this potential ECL since last Monday, and I gotta say - the models have been pretty impressive thus far. There’s very little change to the surf outlook for next week.
Although today’s expected size increase came in just at the bottom end of forecast expectations, I’m holding generally steady with the outlook for Thursday as I feel the longer period energy is yet to show properly, and will probably muscle up a little overnight ahead of a gradual easing through the day. More in the Forecaster Notes.
A ridge across the East Coast will maintain southerly quadrant winds for the next three days (two, south from Yamba). And there's plenty of more south swell ahead. More in the Forecaster Notes.
The weekend looks pretty average, overall. But there's some interesting S'ly swells on the way, check the Forecaster Notes for more details.
The fetch responsible for the last few days of great waves has remained active off the west coast of New Zealand since Sunday, though is now slowly weakening and rotating outside of our swell window. More in the Forecaster Notes.
At this stage there’s no reason to deviate from Friday’s estimate. More in the Forecaster Notes.
Having confidence on the likely size from this new SE swell is quite difficult. More in the Forecaster Notes.
We’ve got stacks of swell for the weekend, though the anchored coastal ridge will maintain moderate to occasionally fresh S’ly winds across all coasts. More in the Forecaster Notes.