Clean leftover NE swell over the weekend with another NE swell expected late next week

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Clean leftover NE swell over the weekend with another NE swell expected late next week

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No change to the weekend f/cast. Fronts passing over the state and a dissipating complex low see offshore winds through Sat. We’ll see easing levels of NE swell now that the fetch has been shunted out of the swell window, along with some long range E/NE swell from the South Pacific. 

XL NE windswell now building, offshore winds Fri

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XL NE windswell now building, offshore winds Fri

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Closer to home a strong high between Tasmania and the South Island is being squeezed by an approaching trough series, front and cut-off low, which is seeing N to NE gales develop on the Tasmanian East Coast swell window. Large surf with onshore/sideshore gales develops Fri before a change brings offshore winds Fri into Sat.

Slow fade out of E swell over the weekend with light winds

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Slow fade out of E swell over the weekend with light winds

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E’ly swell keeps chugging along this week. Despite some slow periods between pulses the ASCAT (satellite windspeed) passes shows a long, broad fetch of strong winds with gales embedded around a tropical depression. That leads to high confidence in continuing pulsey swell from that South Pacific source fetch.