A Tasman Low will form overnight in the central Tasman Sea, and a series of secondary lows and surface fronts wrapping around its western flank will maintain gale force S’ly winds parallel to the NSW Coast for several days.
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We’ve got a couple of quiet days lining up ahead of a prolonged onslaught of southerly wind and southerly swell.
It’s a mixed bag this weekend.
Again, there’ll be an enormous variation in size right across the coast, thanks to the southerly direction.
By and large, because of this synoptic pattern, these Forecaster Notes are almost the same for Southern NSW as they are for Northern NSW, except for a few key points.
Plenty of south swell to come over the coming period, larger mid-late next week.
Mix of S'ly and S/SE swells tomorrow, clean and easing Friday with a large new long-period S'ly groundswell Saturday morning, easing into Sunday morning, with a fresh pulse for Monday morning and plenty more next week.
Large S/SE groundswell pulse tomorrow morning, easing off into the afternoon, with a mix of smaller reinforcing S/SE and S swells through the end of the week. Strong new S'ly groundswell Saturday morning.
Small background swell tomorrow with a new acute S'ly swell Sunday south of Byron. Temporary drop in size Monday morning, with a better S/SE swell for Tuesday morning with workable winds in the morning.
Sunday’s shaping up to deliver very large S’ly swells in Northern NSW though only protected locations will offer anything worthwhile.