Plenty of surf this weekend (easing Sun) with an active Monsoon Trough next week offering up plenty of potential

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Plenty of surf this weekend (easing Sun) with an active Monsoon Trough next week offering up plenty of potential

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A monsoon trough sits over Northern Australia terminating in the Coral Sea, with a strong high moving into the Tasman to start next week. The resulting SE surge up through the Tasman into the Coral Sea generates plenty of swell as the fetch spreads out across the Tasman.

Make the most of today

Craig

Make the most of today

Craig

The surf will go poor into the weekend, with a small window down South early next week before onshore winds and stormy surf out of the south kicks back in.

Boost in E swell leading into the weekend with a SE surge early next week bringing more surf

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Boost in E swell leading into the weekend with a SE surge early next week bringing more surf

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The compact low near Tasmania is now skipping away to the SE with a large high SE of the South Island (1034 hPa) interacting with a broad low pressure trough in the South Pacific which will supply E’ly quadrant swell in the near term as the low pressure trough retrogrades back towards the east coast.