The weekend still looks really good for surf prospects.
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It looks like you should be racking up lots of brownie points this week, as you’ll probably find a need to exercise all options to surf both days this weekend.
In short for SE Qld surfers - we’re not expecting any surfable action north of the border, so you’ll have to pack the car for a road trip south of the border.
We’re at the top of a steady downwards trend and open beaches will come to life as winds swing to the west.
The models have slightly tweaked the specs on the developing low off the southern NSW coast tonight.
In addition to the broad coastal fetch there are two other swell generating regions within this system that are of much greater interest to me.
The models are still holding steady for the weekend.
The stationary nature of the low at this time still suggests we could see some mid-week swell across exposed south facing beaches in Northern NSW.
Saturday is still a much better choice than Sunday, for all coasts. We’ve got a developing coastal trough for Sunday that’s going to generate NE tending N/NE gales, and this will write off just about everywhere for the second half of the weekend.
The active trade belt through the northern Tasman Sea and Coral Sea is slowly easing and contracting to the north. This means we’ll see a gradual easing in surf size over the coming days.