Central QLD Forecaster Notes by Steve Shearer (issued on Fri 27th Jan)

This weekend and next week (Jan27-Feb3)

Central QLD: Still nothing significant on the radar

Not much on offer with surf retreating back to tiny levels.

Weak high pressure is rapidly moving SE into the Tasman in the wake of yesterdays trough, which has stalled just north of the Hunter coast. Thats leading to continuing light winds in the Coral Sea and tiny surf. Models are suggesting a minor increase in SE swell tomorrow as the trade flow perks up just a notch but any increase will be very minor so keep expectations low with knee high waves expected at best. Maybe just surfable at exposed breaks.

Any surf then declines back to tiny levels from Sun for most of next week.

We may see a developing NE flow into a trough late next week but models are chopping and changing so it’s not worth more than flagging at the moment for a possible swell source.

Out in the South Pacific a large sub-tropical low slowly retrogrades back towards Australia first week of Feb. This is better positioned for the sub-tropics with small amounts of long range E/SE swell likely for the f/cast region next weekend where there is open access from the Capricorn Channel.

Given the poor model agreement and run to run inconsistency it’s likely we’ll be back Mon with serious revision for all these swell sources so don’t set plans in stone just yet. 

Check back Mon and have a great weekend!