Surf builds into the new week as high pressure drifts SE of the Island and the trough stalls off the Southern NSW coast, directing SE-E winds at Tas and generating some chunky E/SE-E swell.
New high pressure moves SE of Tasmania to start next week and compared to Wed’s notes it’s looking stronger and slower moving, which is good news for surf potential, especially medium term as it anchors low pressure drifting down from the tropics into the wide open South Pacific slot.
The coming period will be poor for the South Coast as the summer sou'easters really kick in. The Mid will only offer limited size tomorrow.
New high pressure moves SE of Tasmania to start next week and compared to Wed’s notes it’s looking stronger and slower moving, which is good news for surf potential, especially medium term as it anchors low pressure drifting down from the tropics into the wide open South Pacific slot.
Apart from a good SW groundswell tomorrow, the period will consist of mostly, poor quality SE windswell along with the associated winds.
Good SW-S/SW groundswell for the coming days ahead of varying cyclone energy.
Central QLD Forecaster Notes by Steve Shearer (updated on Wed Feb 5th)
This week and next week (Feb5-Feb14)
Central QLD: Easing swells short term with next week now looking a bit lacklustre
Plenty of fun waves in the recent past, easing into the weekend.
The next S’ly change pushes into Tas Fri before stalling, with a useful fetch of SE-E winds aimed up at East Coast Tas.
No great change to the outlook as a tradewind fetch anchored by tropical low pressure near New Caledonia remains active before the low slides off to the SE later tomorrow and into Fri. We’ll see continuing mid-period tradeswells from this source, slowly easing from todays peak.
There are two fun swells inbound though one of them will be spoilt by strong onshore winds.
