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.
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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.
From Sunday we've got multiple strong swells inbound though winds are a little tricky at times.
Make the most of the current swell, though there is another good one for the weekend but with less favourable winds.
Tomorrow will be windy with building levels of swell while Wednesday looks the pick, though with strong, tricky offshore winds. Another good swell is due Sunday but with wind.
The weekend will be decent across the South West each morning while a bigger swell is due into next week with strong offshore winds as it peaks.
We've got a few more pulses of swell to come this period, cleanest as they ease.. as always.
The coming outlook is favourable with fun swell pulses with generally favourable winds.
It's not looking epic, but there'll be fun surf days to work with this period.
A new south swell due on the weekend has been upgraded but local winds will be less than ideal at its peak.