Unfortunately, the low now moves southwards, dragging the E’ly flow with it, out of the CQ swell window.
The basic building blocks of the pattern are a strong high pressure belt cradling multiple low pressure systems in the Coral Sea and South Pacific- essentially creating a huge, multi-centred low pressure gyre through a vast area of ocean to our east.
A slightly tricky period and not ideal for Clifton. Other options are likely better.
Lots of action next week. We’ve got a stack of strong E to E/NE swell incoming- with some model variability suggesting we’ll need some further fine tuning next week.
Fading surf on the weekend with increasing winds, windy and more onshore through mid-next week with some better swell. Better surf from next weekend.
The wind outlook is a little more promising for the coming period with some fun windows of surf for the South Coast.
Lots of wind and plenty of swell but quality will be hard to come by until next week, improving slowly.
From next week the trend will be to E/NE swell. This will be generated by the increasing E to E/NE winds in the deep E’ly wind field retrograding S and W towards Southern NSW.
Trade flows and a deepening depression on Mon are likely to see surf pop back up again Tues into the 2ft range.
This will be generated by the increasing winds in the deep E’ly wind field retrograding W towards the coast as a large area of tropical low pressure off the QLD coast starts to deepen and move S.
