Friday and Saturday look fun ahead of some likely better, closer-range swell energy next week.

We’re seeing a ramp up in strong S’ly winds along the eastern seaboard as a dominant high (1035hPa) moves through the eastern Bight towards Tasmania with a trough on it’s leading edge moving northwards. Remnants of a low on the weekend are also sitting near New Zealand with swell generating fetches off the South Island and emerging from Cook Strait into the eastern Tasman.

The coming outlook will be best suited to exposed breaks over the coming days before the attention swings to the Surf Coast next week.

By the weekend we’ll see a strong SE surge pushing north of K’gari (Fraser Is) with surf developing either later Sat or Sun.