The weekend looks terrible.
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Good S'ly groundswell pulse for tomorrow morning with offshore winds, easing during the day and bottoming out early Sunday. Average winds Sunday with building levels of S'ly swell into the afternoon/evening and peaking Monday morning with variable breezes.
Clean fading N/NE windswell tomorrow with some good new S'ly swell for Friday with offshore winds, a touch smaller Saturday. Renewal in S'ly swell Sunday but with poor conditions, better Monday.
Strong to gale force W/SW winds trailing the front into the Tasman Sea will then set up an unusual S’ly swell for Friday.
Today’s upwards trend out of the south is only the beginning.
The broad outlook is up throughout Thursday, down temporarily Friday morning, then up again strongly Friday afternoon across the Mid North Coast ahead of a large weekend of southerly swell in Northern NSW, with smaller conditions across SE Qld.
As for new swells throughout the forecast period - we have a very active progression of fronts across the SE corner of the country.
It’s a relatively straight forward forecast for the weekend - easing size from this point onwards, with light variable winds for much of Saturday, freshening from the north Sunday.
The current E’ly swell is modeled to hang into Thursday morning of a similar size as per today, before easing slowly throughout the afternoon.
Strong southerly swells from the Tasman Low will fill in across Northern NSW overnight, but then trend down fairly quickly from Tuesday lunchtime onwards.