Pressure gradients tighten on Tuesday as a cut-off mid-latitude low in the Bight approaches, with N’ly winds starting to freshen along the NSW South Coast and adjacent waters. This N’ly fetch is expected to be a useful swell source for NETas.
This allows a broad, but weak area of Tradewinds to develop through the Coral Sea, with just enough coverage in the crucial area SW of New Caledonia down to the Fraser Coast to allow some useful tradewind swell to build through Tues and Wed.
Lots of swell with periods of good winds, you'll just have to work the size pulses and swings in wind.
Below the continent, a very active Southern storm track is continuing to generate large seas with a few pulses of long period swell expected from this source.
A fun end to the week ahead of a trickier period owing to funky winds and mixed swell sources.
Varying winds this period from all degrees of the compass, but workable across both regions at times.
Plenty of swell to come this period but cleanest over the coming days. A larger swell is due on the weekend but with onshore breezes, cleaner and fun on the beaches early-mid next week.
A progression of strong Southern Ocean fronts will bring lots of swell but winds will be tricky at times.
A wintry pattern is on offer this week, with a stack of intense frontal activity impacting Tasmania and a deep, complex semi-stalled Polar low providing refracted S swell pulses through the week.
Following this rapid spike in wind and swell the week settles down quickly as strong high pressure moves in from the Bight across the south-east interior and becomes flabby, leading to settled conditions and small surf to end the working week
