We’ve got a moderate strength high pressure cell (1025hPa) in the Tasman, connected to a high pressure belt under the continent, directing NE winds in Central/Southern NSW, more E-SE in the sub-tropics where a broad troughy area is directing a stronger onshore flow and whipping up local swells from that direction.
No great change to the weekend f/cast. Just a small, weak mixed bag of leftover S swells and E swells to 1-2ft at best Sat, similar or smaller Sun.
Elsewhere, it’s a bland pattern with a dormant Coral Sea. Cold fronts later this week and over the weekend will supply some minor S swell favouring NENSW S facing beaches.
For our sub-tropical region the main swell source will be a proximate N’ly fetch extending up to water adjacent to the CQ coast and holding a workable NE windswell.
An approaching inland trough will freshen northerlies about most coasts on Sunday, so make the most of Saturday.
We’ve got building trade swells for the next few days, and a weakening synoptic pattern in the north, that will result in light variable winds and sea breezes in most northern areas.
I like the look of these weather charts.
Wednesday is where we’ll start to see a gradual increase in new trade swell from a broad easterly fetch developing from this weekend onwards.
The rest of the week looks very ordinary for SE Qld, mainly due to a freshening northerly flow.
We're now at the peak of the swell cycle from STC Jasper so it's a slow dowards trend for the rest of the week.
