We’ll see a brief fallow period before a SE surge Fri brings a new SE swell with the next round of Tradeswell next week, possibly enhanced by tropical low pressure systems in the South Pacific and Coral Sea.
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/reports/forecaster-notes/central-queensland/2025/02/19/rebuild-in-size-se-surge-arrives-fri
freeride76
Wednesday, 19 February 2025
/reports/forecaster-notes/central-queensland/2025/02/12/fun-waves-all-week-tropical-low-drifts-south
freeride76
Wednesday, 12 February 2025
An active monsoon pattern is seeing a tropical low drifting in the Coral Sea with a supporting high approaching New Zealand and a slow moving trough line just off the NSW Coast. The low is slow moving as it slides to the SE of New Caledonia and looks to be reinforced by a second tropical low budding off the monsoon trough in North QLD waters.
/reports/forecaster-notes/central-queensland/2025/02/10/really-fun-waves-all-week-tropical-low-drifts
freeride76
Monday, 10 February 2025
There’s already a wide swathe of E’ly to SE’ly winds across the Coral Sea and a developing low off the Central QLD coast tracking towards New Caledonia. That will increase windspeeds along the northern flank of a very broad trade-wind fetch smack bang in our eastern swell window.
/reports/forecaster-notes/central-queensland/2025/02/07/upgrade-next-week-trade-winds-rebuild
freeride76
Friday, 7 February 2025
Surfwise E’ly swells from trade-winds off the top of the high will hold show more energy Mon, up a notch through Tues as the general wind field in the Southern Coral re-strengthens and more mid period swells make landfall from the stalled progression of lows in the South Pacific.
/reports/forecaster-notes/central-queensland/2025/02/05/easing-swells-short-term-next-week-now
freeride76
Wednesday, 5 February 2025
Central QLD Forecaster Notes by Steve Shearer (updated on Wed Feb 5th)
This week and next week (Feb5-Feb14)
Central QLD: Easing swells short term with next week now looking a bit lacklustre
Plenty of fun waves in the recent past, easing into the weekend.
/reports/forecaster-notes/central-queensland/2025/02/03/plenty-surf-short-term-easing-another-round
freeride76
Monday, 3 February 2025
Expect a peak in size over the next 48hrs then a slow ease off through the rest of the week and into the weekend.
/reports/forecaster-notes/central-queensland/2025/01/31/plenty-surf-days-ahead-some-ups-and-downs
freeride76
Friday, 31 January 2025
An active monsoon trough with various low pressure centres is anchoring a trade-wind fetch through the Coral Sea and extending out into the South Pacific which will see plenty of surf in the CQ region.
/reports/forecaster-notes/central-queensland/2025/01/29/surf-every-day-least-week
freeride76
Wednesday, 29 January 2025
We’ll see E’ly tradeswells continue across CQ into and over the weekend and early next week at a minimum. More significant E’ly swells are still on the table but contingent on low pressure developments next week.
/reports/forecaster-notes/central-queensland/2025/01/27/major-surf-pattern-ahead
freeride76
Monday, 27 January 2025
Model runs have been all over the place next week as they struggle to resolve an active monsoon trough which extends out from Northern Australia across the Coral Sea and into the South Pacific Island chains.
/reports/forecaster-notes/central-queensland/2025/01/10/flat-spell-ahead
freeride76
Friday, 10 January 2025
There’s no sign of any Tradewinds into and through next week with tiny/flat surf expected right into next weekend.
