It’s not a great weekend of waves ahead - especially SE Qld - but there will be surfable options if you’ve got access to a south facing beach between Byron Bay and Seal Rocks.
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This small, inconsistent E’ly swell from TC Rueben will dominate the next few days.
Overnight on Wednesday, the leading edge of a small easterly swell is expected to push through, generated by TC Reuben yesterday and today, way out south-east of Fiji.
We’re looking at small waves through the entire weekend, with variable conditions across the region.
We’re finally drawing to a close some six days of thoroughly decent easterly swell.
I also think that we’re probably close to the peak of the upwards phase of this swell event across SE Qld and Northern NSW.
We’re essentially looking at a combination of trade swells from two sources.
The current synoptic pattern lends itself to two main characteristics - a slow increase in size through into the weekend, and a focus of the largest waves toward northern locations.
We’re currently at the low point of the swell cycle; the trades will slowly start to muscle up south and west of New Caledonia and this will incrementally build a trade swell about the region over the coming days, biggest north of Byron.
Today’s existing south swell will taper off through Saturday morning but a second southerly groundswell - much of the same characteristics as today’s event - is expected to push northwards across the coast during the day.