Winds at the southern extent of the fetch will supply some small sideband energy for NETas through next week.

With good model agreement now there’s high confidence we’ll see a major winter swell event next week as a slow moving low takes up occupancy in the Central Tasman leading to a highly energised stormy sea state over a majority of the Tasman Sea.

We've got building westerly swells and increasing winds over the coming days, with next week being fun across more exposed coasts under lighter north-east winds.

The Maldives continue to pump with a larger swell on the cards for Indo late next week.