While the south swell being generated is of no use to the CQ coast, the ridge that develops as the strong high moves into the Tasman brings increased SE winds along the CQ coast and extending out into the Coral Sea later this week.
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/reports/forecaster-notes/central-queensland/2022/03/09/active-tradewind-patterns-in-coral-sea
freeride76
Wednesday, 9 March 2022
/reports/forecaster-notes/central-queensland/2022/03/07/fun-days-surf-ahead-close-and-far-range
freeride76
Monday, 7 March 2022
Meanwhile, out in the South Pacific a sub-tropical low is deepening well E of the North Island with a well aimed fetch expected to be aimed at the sub-tropics generating a long range E’ly groundswell for the weekend.
/reports/forecaster-notes/central-queensland/2022/02/28/fun-waves-days-active-low-in-south-pacific
freeride76
Monday, 28 February 2022
Low slipping through South Pacific sends good swells to exposed breaks this week, with small background surf before and after.
/reports/forecaster-notes/central-queensland/2022/02/25/easing-surf-now-fetch-aimed-too-far-south-cq
freeride76
Friday, 25 February 2022
Unfortunately, the low now moves southwards, dragging the E’ly flow with it, out of the CQ swell window.
/reports/forecaster-notes/central-queensland/2022/02/23/tradewind-swell-bit-flukier-in-the-short-term
freeride76
Wednesday, 23 February 2022
Trade flows and a deepening depression on Mon are likely to see surf pop back up again Tues into the 2ft range.
/reports/forecaster-notes/central-queensland/2022/02/21/another-round-fun-tradewind-swell-ahead-mid
freeride76
Monday, 21 February 2022
Trade flows across the South Coral and Northern Tasman Sea won’t be particularly strong this week but the broad scale coverage of winds and an uptick in wind strengths in more proximate areas of the fetch Tues/Wed will be enough to see a modest building trend into Wed and beyond.
/reports/forecaster-notes/central-queensland/2022/02/14/ tradewinds-in-the-coral-sea-maintain
freeride76
Monday, 14 February 2022
Under the influence of the high pressure belt it’ll be a week of SE to E/SE’ly winds and a small blend of E’ly tradewind swell trains.
/reports/forecaster-notes/central-queensland/2022/02/11/stc-dovi-and-strong-high-pressure-combine
freeride76
Friday, 11 February 2022
At 5am this morning TC Dovi was about 730 nautical miles E/NE of the Queensland border. Winds in the fetch are aimed away from the CQ coast, to targets further south, so the cyclone itself is not a swell source for the region.
/reports/forecaster-notes/central-queensland/2022/02/09/strong-high-pressure-ridge-sees-rideable-surf
freeride76
Wednesday, 9 February 2022
Another strong high pressure ridge is preparing to build along the CQ coast Fri with (another!) tropical low drifting south from the South Pacific later this week and over the weekend down the Tasman Sea pipe.
/reports/forecaster-notes/central-queensland/2022/02/04/strong-high-pressure-ridge-sees-surf-build
freeride76
Friday, 4 February 2022
A monster high moving through the Bight is strengthening with the pressure gradient tightened along the entire ridge line by a low pressure trough with embedded low systems in it.
