Average end to the week with a large swell for the weekend but with only a small window of good conditions.

Summer doldrums.

There's nothing of note at all for the coming fortnight.

To the south, a severe gale to storm force fetch off the ice shelf from a retrograding low under the South Island sends a rare S/SE groundswell up the Pipe, with another strong front/low late this week into the weekend expected to generate another pulse of S’ly groundswell late this week.