Small swells and light winds for the weekend with a fun, little round of tradewind swell next week

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Small swells and light winds for the weekend with a fun, little round of tradewind swell next week

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We’ve still got the basic building blocks in place that we mentioned on Wed with the proviso that everything looks a little weaker and disjointed. High pressure moves NE of Tasmania and the troughs remain inland, although we may see a weaker trough area move off the North Coast of NSW early in the week. SE-E/SE tradewinds are established in the Central Coral Sea and will supply small tradewind swell for the first half of the week at least.

Long period S swells keep coming with a generally downgraded outlook for next week

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Long period S swells keep coming with a generally downgraded outlook for next week

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We’ve still got the basic building blocks in place that we mentioned on Wed with the proviso that everything looks a little weaker and disjointed. High pressure moves NE of Tasmania and the troughs remain inland, although we may see a weaker trough area move off the North Coast of NSW early in the week. 

Remaining small and weak into the weekend, much more to look forwards to next week

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Remaining small and weak into the weekend, much more to look forwards to next week

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A cold front and long trough are bringing a S’ly change to the NSW coast, extending into the sub-tropics later today and overnight. There’s not a great deal of useful swell generating winds associated with the change so only modest short range S swells are expected  to accompany it. The lingering troughy pattern gets much more dynamic over the weekend (and next week) as a powerful high approaches from the Bight.