Central QLD Forecaster Notes by Steve Shearer (updated on Wed Feb 5th)

This week and next week (Feb5-Feb14)

Central QLD: Easing swells short term with next week now looking a bit lacklustre

Plenty of fun waves in the recent past, easing into the weekend.

No great change to the outlook as a tradewind fetch anchored by tropical low pressure near New Caledonia remains active before the low slides off to the SE later tomorrow and into Fri. We’ll see continuing mid-period tradeswells from this source into tomorrow before surf eases into the weekend. 

Trade fetch slowly breaking down 

Tiny, just rideable surf then pads out the weekend.

We may see one last little pulse Mon as a last low spins up and then moves SE over the weekend. 

Easing swells into Tues/Wed.

Further ahead more tropical low pressure is expected to form on a SE-NW oriented monsoon trough next week but at this stage, low pressure slides off to the SE quickly and we’re not likely to get any meaningful swell from it as currently modelled.

Under that scenario we’d be looking at a low energy outlook from mid next week through the end of next week with small E swells in the sub 2ft range and light winds.

The monsoon trough still looks active medium term so revisions are possible- check back Fri and we’ll see how it looks.