Protected spots will fair best over the coming period until Tuesday.

Tradewinds are expected to develop in the Coral Sea through next week, leading to rideable surf from mid week.

Doesn’t look we’ll see much swell of significance from these zonal fronts so expect small swells from the S over the weekend, only really favouring S swell magnets in NENSW.

Model divergence reduces confidence in the outlook with GFS suggesting the trough deepens into a broad surface low which would bring days of elevated S through SE-E/SE swell and onshore winds.