Small south swells this week, with exciting possibilities out of the east for next week.
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I’m all out of interesting adjectives. Let’s cut to the chase: SE Qld won’t see any worthwhile surf this weekend.
The current SE swell is easing across Southern NSW so we can expect a similar trend throughout Northern NSW on Thursday.
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.