Thursday sees a solid spike in NE windswell as N’ly winds ramp up from the South Coast across Bass Strait and adjacent to NETas.
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Surf builds into the new week as high pressure drifts SE of the Island and the trough stalls off the Southern NSW coast, directing SE-E winds at Tas and generating some chunky E/SE-E swell.
The next S’ly change pushes into Tas Fri before stalling, with a useful fetch of SE-E winds aimed up at East Coast Tas.
A high pressure in the centre of the Tasman is directing SE-E winds across the sub-tropics, more NE in temperate regions extending down to the Island state. We’ll see more NE windswell episodes in the f/cast period.
A more classic looking summer chart to start next week with high pressure in the Tasman and low pressure centres near New Caledonia and in the South Pacific slot, with a healthy E’ly tradewind fetch extending across most of the Central and Southern Coral Seas and NE winds in the NETas swell window.
As new high pressure drifts into the Tasman over the weekend we’ll see another round of NE windswell develop for NETas late in the weekend and early next week.
NETas is likely to see at least some workable NE windswell during this period and possibly some E/NE swell of tropical origins.
The coming period is more flukey and weaker.
We've got a mix of easing east and new south swell tomorrow, smaller Friday.
The current energy will be fun but easing tomorrow ahead of a better increase Wednesday.