The Indian Ocean remains in a progressive pattern with a large high pressure belt and zonal disturbances in the Roaring 40’s supplying moderate overlapping SW pulses on a 24-36hr basis. Basically, overlapping swell pulses from these zonal storms will hold moderate surf all week, with subtle ups and downs.

Surf-wise a storm force system under Africa sends long period forerunners arriving Mon in the 19-20 second band before the bulk of the swell energy in the 16-17 second band fills in later Mon and Tues.

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.