The coming period will become better from Wednesday but with plenty of wind.
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The South West will offer small waves over the weekend with more action from mid-late next week.
The coming period is slower ahead of a possible more active outlook from later next week.
Make the most of the current building swell energy as the rest of the outlook is slow.
There's plenty of swell due this period but with trickier winds.
The South West will shine this period with plenty of quality surf days.
The coming week isn't great for the metro locations, better in the South West.
As stated on Wed, the Indian Ocean is quite active with a long fetch of W’ly gales currently SW of the state and moving E. That will supply reinforcing pulses of SW swell later in the weekend into Mon .
Into next week and a long fetch of gale force winds in the screaming 50’s later this week supplies plenty of energy into next week, although nothing major. The position of the long wave trough favours Victoria as those winds form low pressure and aim up more directly at SE Aus.
The Indian Ocean is in an active phase with a storm track concentrated on disturbances SW of Heard Island and tracking below the state maintaining intensity. Locally, a ridge under the state is being enhanced by a trough moving down the coast from the Gascoyne, eventually forming a low off the SW corner before it moves inland again.