Brisk westerly winds and a complex low pressure gyre in the Tasman Sea, with multiple cold fronts and a deep S’ly fetch of gales extending down to 55S have ushered in the first day of Winter.

Brisk westerly winds and a complex low pressure gyre in the Tasman Sea, with multiple cold fronts and a deep S’ly fetch of gales extending down to 55S have ushered in the first day of Winter.

The current large swell will ease rapidly overnight but conditions will clean right up and there's fun surf days from the weekend.

A poor couple of days so rug up before conditions improve later week with swell from the south to south-east.