Also in the mix across SE Qld will be a local E/SE swell from the fetch right on our doorstep (generating the locally breezey conditions).
The remnants of ex-TC Gita flared up off the West Coast of New Zealand’s South Island yesterday, and it’s generating a new SE swell that will arrive through Thursday.
Our small new groundswell should provide fun waves at Victor on Thursday morning under an early NE breeze.
A small groundswell will lift across the coast Thursday afternoon.
As ex-TC Gita tracks towards New Zealand on Tuesday, it’ll reform off the West Coast and form a broad fetch of gales that will give rise to a brief flush of SE groundswell as we progress into Thursday.
The remnants of ex-TC Gita will reform off the West Coast of New Zealand’s South Island on Tuesday.
Gusty S/SE winds off the state's south-east coast will maintain short range windswells at Victor through Tuesday
We should however see some great beachies east of Melbourne with the offshore breeze
I can’t in good conscience ignore a Cat 3 cyclone aligned really well within our swell window, aiming 50-60kt winds at such close range, and simply issue a size forecast that is also theoretically possible from a standard winter Tasman Low or an E’ly dip within a fully developed trade flow.
I have no doubt that Severe Tropical Cyclone Gita is going to become Exhibit A in a meteorological course module at some unsuspecting university down the track.
