The current SE swell is easing across Southern NSW so we can expect a similar trend throughout Northern NSW on Thursday.
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We’re staring down the barrel of an extended period of winter mediocrity in SE Qld. I can’t see there being anything worthwhile for the rest of this week as our primary swell windows have been inactive of late.
We’ve got a bog standard south swell ahead for the weekend. Expect a delay on the upwards phase of this swell in the Far North through Saturday.
Model guidance still has a strong front tracking through the lower Tasman Sea overnight Friday but recent runs have tweaked the alignment more towards a zonal pattern (west-east), which has downgraded our surf potential.
There’s still around three feet of leftover southerly swell across Southern NSW this afternoon, so we can look forward to a similar round of energy across Northern NSW on Tuesday morning.
The weekend looks reasonably fun all round.
These troughs/lows that develop close to the Southern NSW coast and remain slow moving are always tricky for swell potential.
With wave heights expected to reach a brief peak overnight under the cover of darkness, Tuesday morning should still see slightly larger surf than what we’ve seen today.
Today’s easing trade swell will continue its downwards trend into the weekend, but winds will swing W/NW across northern regions and W/SW across southern regions, resulting in clean beachbreaks.
The next few days look a little suss with E/NE winds tending NE then eventually N’ly, freshening all the while.