A good sized swell aligns with light offshore breezes this weekend before the surf drops and winds pick up next week

In the eastern swell window a massive high east of New Zealand and tropical depression in Tongan longitudes is reaching peak intensity and expected to send some meaningful E’ly groundswell towards the eastern seaboard, making landfall over the weekend and next week.

Both coasts will clean up through tomorrow with easing levels of swell, with good SW groundswell pulses for the weekend under light northerly winds.

More frontal activity through the lower Tasman keeps the southern swell window active medium term while the Tasman Sea now looks like showing enhanced storminess with major models in broad agreement over a large, complex surface low developing and good odds for a prolonged M/L swell event.