A lage swell will continue to build, peaking late on Thursday for northern NSW and Friday for southeast QLD. South/southwesterly winds each morning will lead to good conditions across the points. Keep an eye out on the local wind obs.
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All this detail is fairly insignificant ahead of a much more exciting large south swell which has been the talk of the town.
In essence we’ve got a typical summer pattern with a strong ridge through the Coral Sea all weekend expected to drive fresh SE winds across Southern Queensland and Far Northern NSW.
Thursday’s surf potential looks pretty grim at this stage.
I hope you’ve enjoyed the last few days of southerlies, as we’ve got freshening northerlies due on Tuesday.
On the balance, not a great weekend of waves. But there’ll be options around.
The only downer is that we’re looking at persistent S’ly winds throughout the day, so the best waves will be found at semi-exposed points that’ll handle these breezes.
I’m expecting Tuesday to push slowly up into the 3ft+ range at south facing beaches south of Byron during the day.
The low that generated today’s south swell is already exiting our swell window to the east, so surf size will ease rapidly from this source overnight.
So, that’s three potential swell sources all in store for Thursday, and the combination of them all could produce some tasty results at the right kinds of beaches.