A good swell is due tomorrow but with tricky winds, better into Sunday with smaller swell pulses and favourable winds for the beaches next week.

The coming days and weekend will be most active, slower from mid-next week.

We’ll see a long E’ly fetch develop through the South Pacific slot through the end of this week, enhanced by a trough of low pressure near New Caledonia which is attached to a still active monsoon trough. Swells from this source may eventually reach NETas later next week.

High pressure is moving into the Tasman, strengthening as it drifts towards New Zealand, where it is expected to become a dominant “flat topped” feature, reinforced by subsequent high pressure moving into the Tasman. We’ll see a long E’ly fetch develop through the South Pacific slot through the end of this week, enhanced by a trough of low pressure near New Caledonia which is attached to a still active monsoon trough.