The front responsible for today’s large southerly swell has already exited our swell window, so we’re looking at a steady drop in size from Tuesday onwards.
The coming week isn't great for the metro locations, better in the South West.
The coming days look best for the South Coast but watch out for a possible algal slick.
There'll be plenty of opportunities for a surf over the coming days ahead of onshore breezes from Friday.
A new long period groundswell is then expected to rebuild into Wednesday, sourced from an intense polar low skirting the ice shelf on Sunday.
We’ve got a solid run of autumn swell lining up for the state next week, thanks to a powerful conveyor belt of Southern Ocean fronts and lows generating overlapping groundswells that’ll arrive from Sunday thru’ Friday.
As stated on Wed, the Indian Ocean is quite active with a long fetch of W’ly gales currently SW of the state and moving E. That will supply reinforcing pulses of SW swell later in the weekend into Mon .
A powerful conveyor belt of Southern Ocean fronts and lows will generate overlapping groundswells that’ll arrive from Sunday thru’ Friday.
Weak high pressure is in the Tasman with a modest tradewind fetch in the Coral Sea with another weak high moving into the Tasman in it’s wake. Trades perk up today into tomorrow suggesting a small bump in size over the weekend into Mon before easing early next week.
SW gales push through Bass Strait and adjacent to the Tasmanian East Coast Sun night and into Mon.
