Moderate strength high pressure (1025 hPa) is drifting NE into the Tasman with a strong polar storm well SW of NZ exiting the swell window. That should see a settled short term before another complex trough and frontal system pushes north along the coast tomorrow with a stiff SW-S change. More rapid wind changes into and over the weekend under a very mobile, troughy pattern with some potential next week for a surface low to form in one of the trough lines.

There's a mix of weak swells on the way for the coming period with tricky winds. There'll be windows across both regions though.

I’m not super confident on the weekend outlook.

Light morning winds and good S/SW swell pulses for the coming days ahead of a tricky weekend of surf.