Slowly building surf through tomorrow ahead of an oversized long-period W/SW groundswell filling in Wednesday and secondary large pulse for Thursday.
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A great weekend of waves on the South Coast with a strong new long-period groundswell. Increasing windy and building surf through next week, becoming oversized and stormy before winds improve on the backside of the swell.
Easing surf with slowly improving winds tomorrow, clean Friday but with no decent swell. Much better weekend with good winds and a new swell.
Much better conditions tomorrow down South with a good sized easing S/SW swell, smaller Wednesday with a limited window of clean conditions. Average end to the week, much better on the weekend with a new groundswell and great winds.
The low pressure system driving this front is a beauty, and it’s aimed fair and square into Kangaroo Island.
A much more powerful front, steered by an active node of the Long Wave Trough, will push into our region early Saturday, delivering squally SW winds across the coast and a proper 3-5ft Mid Coast stormy throughout the day with small waves on the metro beaches.
It’s a great synoptic pattern for swell on the Mid Coast though we’ve obviously got a lot of onshore wind to deal with.
Not an inspiring weekend ahead.
The most promising part of this weather progression is probably the interaction between a polar low and a pre-frontal W/NW flow to its north, positioned S/SW of WA on Thurs/Fri.
Today's easing swells will continue to abate into Tuesday and will become very small by the afternoon.