The coming days will become windy and large, but quality will be hard to find, with a stronger swell due early next week.
The slow moving low in the South Pacific slot has a very broad, almost semi-stationary fetch on its southern flank, buttressed by high pressure over New Zealand. This is likely to see a fully developed sea state with plenty of sizey mid period E swell across most of the eastern seaboard.
The South Coast will offer cleaner small waves over the coming days, with some new west swell due late week.
This low intensifies as it tracks slowly through the South Pacific slot between New Caledonia and the North Island, spraying the East coast with quality E swell.
The beaches will slowly improve over the coming days with fun options for the keen. The weekend will build in size but with generally onshore winds.
The whole weekend looks generally poor thanks to a lingering trough.
The coming period is poor and windy apart from tomorrow so make the most of the current offshores in the South West.
Surfwise E’ly swells from trade-winds off the top of the high will hold show more energy Mon, up a notch through Tues as the general wind field in the Southern Coral re-strengthens and more mid period swells make landfall from the stalled progression of lows in the South Pacific.
Surf builds into the new week as high pressure drifts SE of the Island and the trough stalls off the Southern NSW coast, directing SE-E winds at Tas and generating some chunky E/SE-E swell.
New high pressure moves SE of Tasmania to start next week and compared to Wed’s notes it’s looking stronger and slower moving, which is good news for surf potential, especially medium term as it anchors low pressure drifting down from the tropics into the wide open South Pacific slot.
