These winds will coalesce later today into a more organised fetch of S-SE gales as the system slowly tracks southwards then S/SE. As a result we’ll see elevated wave heights from the E/SE-S/SE right into mid-week, augmented by some long range S/SE groundswell from another ice shelf fetch in the Ross Sea region adjacent to Antarctica. 

We’ll see surf from this NE-E/NE infeed propagate from the sub-tropics down to temperate regions over the weekend, eventually generating swells for NETas as a surface low forms from the trough off the south coast of NSW and moves towards Bass Strait.

Into next week and Tues offers some potential with models picking up some long period S/SE groundswell generated by a slow moving polar low around the edge of the Antarctic ice shelf in the vicinity of the Ross Sea.

The coming week looks to be the best of the period.