Central QLD Forecaster Notes by Steve Shearer (updated on Wed Oct 18th)

This week and next week (Oct 18-Oct 27)

Central QLD: Just rideable surf easing quickly into the weekend

SE surge has bought just rideable surf to the region.

The synoptic set-up looks quite unseasonal at the moment with a 1031 hPa high drifting over NSW and a 1007 hPa low slow moving in the Tasman west of the North Island. The SE surge from this high has generated some small, scrappy surf. Get in quickly for this swell, we’ll see some more small surf tomorrow then easing swells for Fri and back to flat for the weekend.

Tiny/flat surf then continues into next week, likely extending through most of next week.

As we noted on Mon, some early season tropical activity up near the Solomon Islands now looks set to deepen into a tropical depression, possibly even a very early season cyclone. Unlikely we will see any swell from it - EC has the system just trickling into the swell window as it peters out, while GFS runs it quickly off to the SE between New Caledonia and Vanuatu into the “graveyard”. 

We’ll have another look at it on Fri, but it’s far more likely see continuing tiny surf.

Seeya Fri.