High pressure moves near the South Island and a broad inland low will see winds freshen from N-NE over the weekend, with NE windswell building.
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On the other side of the trough we revert back to N’ly winds and small NE windswells, becoming sizier into the weekend.
With high pressure moving NE into the Tasman we’ll see winds from the N freshen through Sat reaching mod/fresh paces in the a’noon. That should generate some workable NE windswell for tomorrow.
Sat looks like more energy, as NE windswell builds in response to a strengthening N/NE flow as high pressure and an approaching trough combine.
Very weak pressure gradients in the Tasman and Coral Seas as we count down 2024.
Huey will be not be offering much in the way of surf for the last days of 2024. The outlook is low energy with weak high pressure moving into the Tasman and no swells of any significance in the near or far swell windows.
Elongated high pressure is moving into the Tasman with an approaching trough, front and cut-off low expected to tighten the pressure gradient leading to freshening N’lies from Boxing Day and some developing NE windswell.
In the short run, we’ll see a wintry type of pattern develop with strong SW winds tending S/SW-S as a low moves east of Tasmania.
O/night Sun into Mon we’ll see a low form off the Gippsland Coast and begin to deepen rapidly through the morning.
A small spike in short range S swell will be reinforced by better quality SE-E/SE swells later this week.