Central QLD Forecaster Notes by Steve Shearer (updated on Fri Nov 27th)

This weekend and next week (Nov29-Dec6)

Central QLD: Small fun waves continue, easing next week

Still plenty of small, fun days ahead.

Still plenty of fun, small waves

No change to the weekend f/cast. A high pressure belt in the sub-tropics maintains a long Easterly fetch with tradewinds chugging away supplying fun surf over the weekend.

Easterly swells should hold at fun levels into early next week before easing from Wed as the tradewind fetch breaks down.

The medium term is starting to look more muscular as move into the second week of summer. There are model suggestions of a stronger SE surge and potential tradewind band developing, potentially enhanced by a long, angled trough in the Coral Sea/Northern Tasman. At the moment that is way too far in the distance to have any confidence in but the fact models are starting to hint at these developments bodes well for a little more size medium term.

We’ll see how it looks on Mon. Until then, have a great weekend!