The pattern of strong, zonal W’lies tied to polar lows and embedded cold fronts and weak mobile high pressure won’t offer much north of Seal Rocks but we will see some small S swells generated by gales out of Bass Strait this week with a mostly NW-W flow across southern NSW and NW-N in the sub-tropics.
We've got large pulses of W/SW groundswell on the way with winds out of the western quadrant.
We're finally looking at the most active outlook we've had this winter.
There is also a risk of northerlies through this period, but we’ll take a closer look at the specs on Monday.
The coming period will become slow as the zonal westerly pattern kicks in across the state.
A strong cold front will cross Victoria on Sunday afternoon, and we’ll see W/SW gales exiting eastern Bass Strait on Monday.
The weekend looks hit and miss, best Sunday with no major surf to follow until late next week.
The weekend and most of next week is a write off for most spots.
A shift in the westerly storm track closer towards us over the coming week and a bit will bring some proper, winter swells and activity.
Make the most of today's spike of swell before focussing on later next week onwards.
