The gist of it is a trough line in the Coral Sea, which may deepen into a low pressure system and drift towards the North Island (GFS scenario) or move towards the QLD coast as a coastal trough and intensify a NE infeed into the CQ coast, possibly as early as Sun bringing a major increase in E-E/NE swell.
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/reports/forecaster-notes/central-queensland/2024/04/17/small-fun-waves-continue-juicier-prospects
freeride76
Wednesday, 17 April 2024
/reports/forecaster-notes/central-queensland/2024/04/10/tiny-just-surfable-waves-next-week
freeride76
Wednesday, 10 April 2024
Some signs of a rebuild in SE-E/SE winds in the Coral Sea next week should add to the mix and hold rideable surf from Tues-Fri.
/reports/forecaster-notes/central-queensland/2024/04/08/small-boost-then-back-tiny-just-surfable
freeride76
Monday, 8 April 2024
A high E of NZ is feeding winds into a trough in the Coral Sea and that will hold fun surf today and into tomorrow.
/reports/forecaster-notes/central-queensland/2024/04/05/fun-surf-over-the-weekend-easing-next-week
freeride76
Friday, 5 April 2024
We’ve got large peanut shaped high centred over Tasmania with lobes in the Bight and Tasman Sea. The moist onshore flow from this set-up is flowing into a coastal trough and small trough of low pressure off the NQLD coast bringing fun sized E swell.
/reports/forecaster-notes/central-queensland/2024/04/01/just-surfable-week-nice-boost-possible-the
freeride76
Monday, 1 April 2024
Weak but persistent tradewinds in the Coral Sea should hold surf just rideable on low tides. If the retrograding low comes off as modelled we’ll see a nice boost in size from Fri into the weekend.
/reports/forecaster-notes/central-queensland/2024/03/29/fun-surf-continues-easter-easing-back-later
freeride76
Friday, 29 March 2024
High pressure in the Tasman is maintaining a ridge along the QLD coast with fun sized surf across the CQ region under mod/fresh SE winds.
/reports/forecaster-notes/central-queensland/2024/03/25/tiny-just-rideable-days-ahead-boost-in-size
freeride76
Monday, 25 March 2024
The tradewind belt is weak but perisistent enough to produce some just rideable surf across CQ on the right tides.
/reports/forecaster-notes/central-queensland/2024/03/22/easing-swells-over-the-weekend-some-tiny-days
freeride76
Friday, 22 March 2024
Weak high pressure in the Tasman is seeing a dissipating tradewind fetch in the Coral Sea so we’ll finally see this run of surf wind down over the weekend, becoming tiny likely by Sat a’noon into Sun.
/reports/forecaster-notes/central-queensland/2024/03/20/surf-keeps-coming
freeride76
Wednesday, 20 March 2024
Into next week and we’ll see a new high pressure system set up a SE surge as we move into the Easter weekend.
/reports/forecaster-notes/central-queensland/2024/03/18/fun-waves-keep-coming-most-week-and-next-week
freeride76
Monday, 18 March 2024
Pretty typical late Summer pattern with a high in the Tasman and a maturing trade-wind flow in the Coral Sea, linked to an active monsoon trough with a small embedded low in the Coral Sea. There is a tropical cyclone in the Gulf of Carpentaria which formed over the weekend but this system is expected to track inland over the NT and Kimberley regions and not be a swell source for the East Coast.
