Central QLD Forecaster Notes by Steve Shearer (updated on Wed Aug 6th)

This week and next week (Aug6-Aug 16)

Central QLD: Pumping surf next week

Nothing at the moment, plenty to come.

Tiny surf expected for the rest of the week.

We’ll see reinforcing high pressure move into the Tasman over the weekend and a ridge build up the sub-tropical NSW and QLD coasts. If this unfolds as expected we’ll see increasing SE winds developing.

We may see a mild increase in new swell Sun into the 1-2ft range, extending into Mon.

No change to the broad pattern expected next week which is strong high pressure in the Tasman and and deep E’ly fetch developing. 

By Tues we see late summer style sizey E’ly swells from a fully developed sea state across the Coral Sea. Expect surf to build into the 3-4ft range. That should extend into Wed.

Slowly easing swell from this source for the rest of the week. The broad E’ly fetch washes out and an E/NE infeed into a local trough is currently modelled as being fairly weak. 

Of course, if any of those troughy short range features develop further we could be in for an upgrade.

We’ll keep tabs on those and report back on Fri to check on their surf potential for the east coast.

Seeya then.