A high just east of Tasmania and a slow moving trough of low pressure off the North Coast direct a pretty robust onshore flow across most of temperate NSW. This fetch will be too far south to be of much use for our sub-tropical region.
Nothing standard about the coming forecast period with tricky swell sources and winds.
The trough is connected to a parent low pushing through the lower Tasman, but the combination of short period SE and longer period S swells will be marred by an onshore flow for most of this week and the weekend.
Plenty of swell and light winds over the coming period, cleanest and best one day over the weekend.
Plenty of swell over the coming period with workable winds across both regions.
Lots of polar frontal activity with generally favourable winds to work around.
After kicking this afternoon we'll see the size dropping with smaller, mid-period swells due to pad out the coming period along with plenty of wind.
E’ly winds on the southern flank of the low don’t look as impressive now as they did Friday but we’re still expecting to see a useful E’ly swell build later Tuesday.
That story continues through the week, with a breakdown of Tradewinds in the Coral Sea and light/variable winds. Great fishing weather for the reef, bad for surf.
In the short run and an elongated “bubble” high moves north along the coast through tomorrow, bringing a cracker of a day with light offshore breezes which will tend SE through the day, with winds becoming light in the a’noon.
