For now, frontal activity is being allowed to track in a more favourable manner for S swell production so we’ll see a week of small/moderate S swell pulses leading into the Easter weekend.
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S swells from frontal activity now look a notch more active next week as the W-E progression of the next high cell (and subsequently fronts) slows and allows more intrusion into the lower Tasman.
We’ll see some frontal activity over the weekend and S pulses next week before another strong, blocking high sets up a ridge next week.
Strong NE winds off the high are generating increasing swells for NETas.
There's plenty of surf to come this period with a strong S/SE groundswell for the weekend due to be replaced by N/NE windswell next week.
Into the weekend and we’re still on track for some strong S/SE groundswell from a stalled low near the ice shelf today with ASCAT passes showing strong gales to storm force winds in the fetch.
There are plenty of surf options this period with swells from all angles, along with the local winds.
Late in the week we’ll see a strong front with a more meridional fetch (N-S) move into the Tasman and if this comes off as modelled we’ll see a strong S swell pulse later Fri into Sat.
N’lies then increase in the swell window over the weekend as high pressure drifts into the Tasman Sea bringing increasing NE windswell from Sat a'noon.
Current ASCAT (satellite windspeed) passes show a long fetch of severe gales in the southern swell window and wave buoys are all in an aggressive upwards curve as strong S swells propagate along the Southern NSW Coastline after making landfall in Tasmania.