Next week is looking subdued but with periods of mostly favourable winds. The gist of it is a band of blocking high pressure and a suppressed zonal storm track.
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Next week is looking subdued but with periods of mostly favourable winds. The gist of it is a band of blocking high pressure and a suppressed zonal storm track.
No great change to the short term outlook- a strong polar low flared up as it passes under WA and today with gales to severe gales well aimed at SW and southern WA.
A polar low flares up as it approaches a more southern point of the WA swell window Wed, with gales to severe gales expected.
Next week still looks iffy for winds as a node of the long wave trough steers fronts into the SW while slow moving high pressure sits in the Central Indian Ocean. Those fronts will maintain a moderate sized series of SW pulses from Tues.
Next week looks little more active now as a fetch of SW gales over the weekend between 70-100E builds seas to 20ft.
Into the weekend and we won’t see too much in the way of swell energy with the Indian Ocean in a quiet phase through the main WA swell window.
The coming period is cleaner across the South West but on the smaller side.
The coming period looks better for the South West, though onshore winds will kick back in later week.
Conditions should improve across the South West this period with fun pulses of swell.