A strong front pushing through the lower SE corner of the Tasman Sea yesterday has reinvigorated the remnants of a small low responsible for an underlying SE swell over the weekend, and this is strengthening a S’ly tending S/SE fetch off the west coast of New Zealand's South Island.
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We’ve got a fun weekend of east swell ahead, and there's plenty of exciting synoptics ahead for the rest of the period too.
We’ve had an improvement in the outlook for the next few days.
We’ve got building swells on the cards for the rest of the week, thanks to a slow moving Tasman high. The main issue we have this week are local winds.
A deepening trough to our north-east is expected to spawn a possible tropical cyclone by mid-week (between Vanuatu and Fiji).
Two southerly changes are pushing up the NSW Coast. And it looks like we’ve got an extended period of E'ly swell on the cards as a blocking pattern sets up camp. More in the Forecaster Notes.
Strengthening N’ly winds are going to dominate the next few days.
Can’t say I’m terribly enthusiastic about the weekend outlook, though there is potential for a few windows of opportunity.
Strengthening northerly winds are really going to create some problems.
Wave heights are still strong though slowly easing across Southern NSW, so we can expect a similar (though delayed) trend in our neck of the woods. More in the Forecaster Notes.