Central QLD Forecaster Notes by Steve Shearer (updated on Mon Mar 10)

This weekend and next week (Mar10-Mar21)

Central QLD: Small swells easing then becoming surfable later this week

Small swells from NE infeed into ex TC Alfred yesterday and today.

We’ve got a large high in the Tasman, feeding moisture into the remnants of ex TC Alfred, which is blending into the monsoon trough over Northern Australia. The whole synoptic pattern on the East Coast in the wake of Alfred is a moist onshore flow which looks to persist through into the mid week. A weak front races across the lower Tasman before reinforcing high pressure slips into the Tasman to reset the flow, albeit at a weaker level. Not a great deal of swell generated by any feature this week.

High pressure drifts more NE into the Tasman with a weak trade flow sitting in the Central Coral Sea through the mid to end of this week.

Weak trade flow generates some small swells by the end of the week

That should be enough to generate some just rideable trade swell for CQ from Thurs extending into the weekend.

At this stage small tradeswells look to persist into next week but we’ll see how that looks on Wed.

Seeya then.