There’s already a wide swathe of E’ly to SE’ly winds across the Coral Sea and a developing low off the Central QLD coast tracking towards New Caledonia. That will increase windspeeds along the northern flank of a very broad trade-wind fetch smack bang in our eastern swell window.
Thursday sees a solid spike in NE windswell as N’ly winds ramp up from the South Coast across Bass Strait and adjacent to NETas.
The coming days will become windy and large, but quality will be hard to find, with a stronger swell due early next week.
The slow moving low in the South Pacific slot has a very broad, almost semi-stationary fetch on its southern flank, buttressed by high pressure over New Zealand. This is likely to see a fully developed sea state with plenty of sizey mid period E swell across most of the eastern seaboard.
The South Coast will offer cleaner small waves over the coming days, with some new west swell due late week.
This low intensifies as it tracks slowly through the South Pacific slot between New Caledonia and the North Island, spraying the East coast with quality E swell.
The beaches will slowly improve over the coming days with fun options for the keen. The weekend will build in size but with generally onshore winds.
The whole weekend looks generally poor thanks to a lingering trough.
The coming period is poor and windy apart from tomorrow so make the most of the current offshores in the South West.
Surfwise E’ly swells from trade-winds off the top of the high will hold show more energy Mon, up a notch through Tues as the general wind field in the Southern Coral re-strengthens and more mid period swells make landfall from the stalled progression of lows in the South Pacific.
