Central QLD Forecaster Notes by Steve Shearer (updated on Mon 6th Nov)

This week and next week (Nov6-Nov17)

Central QLD: Fun tradewind swell episode ahead

Building tradewind swell in the short term, remaining persistent.

Almost there, surfable by tomorrow

Not a great deal too talk about this week, at least as far as our immediate swell windows go. A large area of high pressure has moved into the Tasman and becomes semi-stationary through the week, with inland troughs maintaining unstable weather. The high initially weakens with a lighter onshore flow before re-strengthening as it approaches New Zealand and has the pressure gradient tightened on the western flank by the complex trough systems. A slowly developing tradewind flow in the Coral Sea will see a small E’ly swell signal become workable through the  week, with signs we’ll see a perk up in size late this weekend and early next week. 

We should see surf in the 2ft range become established through Tues and persist into Thurs at this size.

Surf-wise the tradewind fetch  will be chugging away and like all tradewind fetches once we get a fully developed sea state we should see an improvement in size and quality. By Friday size in the 3ft range should hold over the weekend.

Into next week and tradewind swell persists, likely easing through mid next week.

We’ll see how it looks on Wed.