Windy weekend of waves, with great surf for the longer term

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Windy weekend of waves, with great surf for the longer term

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The current building short range south swell should hang around into Saturday morning, before easing a little throughout the day. Of more interest is the likelihood that local winds will throttle back after lunch, and possibly swing to the SW during the afternoon, courtesy of a small low forming east of Bass Strait, deep within a broad trough stretching right along the East Coast. 

Continuing small waves for the short term

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Continuing small waves for the short term

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Residual swell is expected for Thursday and early Friday, with early light winds Thursday gradually freshening from the south as a broad, stationary high in the Bight interacts with a slowly deepening trough across the western Tasman Sea, squeezing the pressure gradient between the two and freshening southerly winds about the East Coast.