Points and back beaches are in for a fun, workable weekend of surf in the 2-3ft range. Mornings will be the go preceding afternoon seabreezes.
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Although poorly aligned, a pair of strong frontal progressions will move across the Tasman late in the week generating side band energy for northern NSW and southeast QLD.
There haven’t been any significant other swell generating systems during this time, so the size will diminish steadily throughout the coming days.
A lage swell will continue to build, peaking late on Thursday for northern NSW and Friday for southeast QLD. South/southwesterly winds each morning will lead to good conditions across the points. Keep an eye out on the local wind obs.
All this detail is fairly insignificant ahead of a much more exciting large south swell which has been the talk of the town.
In essence we’ve got a typical summer pattern with a strong ridge through the Coral Sea all weekend expected to drive fresh SE winds across Southern Queensland and Far Northern NSW.
Thursday’s surf potential looks pretty grim at this stage.
I hope you’ve enjoyed the last few days of southerlies, as we’ve got freshening northerlies due on Tuesday.
On the balance, not a great weekend of waves. But there’ll be options around.
The only downer is that we’re looking at persistent S’ly winds throughout the day, so the best waves will be found at semi-exposed points that’ll handle these breezes.