With no swell sources on tap for CQ we’re looking at a tiny/flat week, par for the course for this time of year.
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With the tradewind belt weakening and contracting northwards we’re seeing tiny/flat surf establish in CQ waters.
High pressure (1031hPa) is slowly but surely moving into the Tasman in a NE direction pushing a decaying tradewind flow further north and leading to easing surf across CQ after a great run of waves.
A persistent tradewind fetch is in the process of resetting with a less favourable wind alignment and easing swells.
No great change to the weekend f/cast. Current ASCAT (satellite windspeed) passes show a very healthy fetch of SE-E/SE tradewinds extending through the Central/Southern Coral Seas with plenty of fun E’ly tradewind swell expected over the weekend. Size in the 2-3ft range is expected and this should hold right through the weekend.
Rapidly building swells across the region as a major SE surge builds up the QLD Coast.
Once the dominant high enters the Tasman on Wed we’ll see a SE’ly to E'ly tradewind pattern start to establish through the Coral Sea, more typical of Summer, likely extending into the weekend with plenty of workable tradewind swell associated with it.
A large high sets up a very useful tradewind flow across the Central and Southern Coral Sea next week, generating a very handy tradewind swell for the sub-tropics through from Wed next week and into the weekend.
We’ve still got a massive high pressure system (1037 hPa) moving over inland NSW, slowly weakening as it enters the Tasman Sea through tomorrow and over the weekend. The high has created a firm ridge up the QLD Coast and a broad swathe of fresh SE breezes to strong winds in the Coral Sea.
We’ve got a monster high pressure (1037 hPa) sitting on the edge of the Bight and moving slowly eastwards, maintaining a firm ridge up most of the Eastern Seaboard. A pair of coastal troughs which were expected to form a large area of low pressure off the Capricorn Coast are weakening and moving northwards through the near term.