A very unstable, dynamic synoptic chart this week with a large high (1034hPa) moving from the Bight through Victoria, with a coastal trough deepening off the Mid North Coast on the leading edge of the high directing very moist onshore winds across Central NSW, extending up into the sub-tropics.

Tuesday will start to build surf size, originating the fetch trailing Monday’s front. However, the origins of this swell will go back five or six days - this system has actually been taking shape from a position south of Africa on Wednesday, before moving eastwards through the southern Indian Ocean.

At best, we have a brief window of light winds early Saturday morning, and this will be the only window of opportunity to surf down south.

That fetch will be positioned too far south for CQ and as a result of that we’ll see mostly tiny surf next week.