Clean conditions and fun sized surf are worth capitalising on in the South West ahead of a return to large, onshore swells.
We've got lots of swell on the way, large out of the W/SW early next week with winds out of the western quadrant.
There’s a troughy pattern in play at present, with a long trough snaking from inland QLD down to the Central/Southern NSW Coast. Return flow off the back of a retreating high is feeding N’ly winds into the trough line. We’re expecting a front to interact with the trough overnight Thurs to form a low pressure trough in the Tasman.
The coming days look poor with onshore winds spoiling a new swell Friday, improving into the weekend and much better. Next week is active.
A slow week (not in the Maldives) with some better swell prospects for next week.
The tradewind fetch is a little weaker than forecast but we’ll still see a reasonable ridge up the QLD coast and some fun waves over the next few days.
We’ve got a reasonably strong high (1032hPa) sitting in the Tasman, with NE winds aimed at Tasmania, slowly drifting NE and weakening as it does so over the next 36-48hrs with the last of a series of powerful storms tracking across the lower Tasman. In the absence of a high pressure ridge we’ll see N to NW’lies.
We've got a slower period with funky wind this week.
A fun swell with cleaner conditions is due tomorrow, with a decent window of building swell and clean conditions Thursday. The weekend looks large and stormy.
The trough is expected to move offshore and merge with a more tropical derived depression to form a large trough of low pressure in the Tasman over the weekend. This has been a feature of synoptic prognostic charts for a few weeks now, with forecasts generally tending to weaken and fall apart as the event unfolds.
