High pressure over the continent and off the QLD Coast is still supplying ridging which is now being strengthened by the next series of troughs and fronts. Off Tasmania a small low pressure cell is slowly moving away with easing onshore winds and a chunky NE swell still building.

We can expect a slow improvement in conditions again this weekend again but with a weakish, easing S/SW swell.

High pressure over the continent and off the QLD Coast is still supplying ridging which is now being strengthened by the next series of troughs and fronts. That will see another episode of W’ly quarter winds over the weekend, with patches of NW winds embedded in the flow.

The current storm track is focussed either side of the Indian Ocean Basin, that being a strong frontal progression sliding under South Africa and Madagascar, along with a weaker, more north-south aligned progression pushing up and into Western Australia.