The next swell is already en route, generated by an intense polar low that had areas of storm force winds embedded in a large gale force fetch as it passed through Heard Island Sun/Mon.

A sub-tropical low which threatened SEQLD and NENSW over the weekend after it formed off the Capricorn coast is now steaming southwards at a fair clip, sliding along a high pressure ridge from a large (1035 hPa) high under Tasmania and dragging a strong fetch with it into the East Tas swell window.

A sub-tropical low which threatened SEQLD and NENSW over the weekend after it formed off the Capricorn coast is  now steaming southwards at a fair clip, sliding along a high pressure ridge from a large (1035 hPa) high under Tasmania and dragging a strong fetch with it. The low is expected to merge with an inland low and horseshoe trough on the Gippsland Coast tomorrow forming a stalled low pressure gyre near Tasmania.

A stationary synoptic pattern for most of next week means generally poor surf across both coasts.