We've got a strong pulse of W/SW-SW swell for later today and tomorrow but with average winds, deteriorating further Sunday. Next week looks smaller and fluky.
Slowly easing surf in Indonesia, with a large SE swell for the Maldives.
Next week now looks juicier with the tradewind flow strengthening and extending southwards, which will see surf build to 2-3ft through Mon, and extend into the middle of next week at similar size.
Storm force low pressure systems tracking under the continent are favouring Victoria for direct swell but we’ll see some long period swells refracting back into the East Tas coast this weekend from this source.
The swell has come up strongly this afternoon and there's plenty more to come.
A cold front and long trough are bringing a S’ly change to the NSW coast, extending into the sub-tropics later today and overnight. There’s not a great deal of useful swell generating winds associated with the change so only modest short range S swells are expected to accompany it. The lingering troughy pattern gets much more dynamic over the weekend (and next week) as a powerful high approaches from the Bight.
Tomorrow remains dicey for the South West, with clean but small waves into Friday/Saturday. A fun new swell is due Monday but that's it for the week.
The Cape du Couedic buoy has picked up the new long-period swell with large surf due to develop through the mid-late afternoon.
A cold front and long trough are bringing a S’ly change to the NSW coast, extending into the sub-tropics later today and overnight. There’s not a great deal of useful swell generating winds associated with the change so only modest short range S swells are expected to accompany it.
Make the most of the current conditions and coming swell before things take a turn for the worse Friday afternoon through the weekend.
