Options in the South West across the magnets ahead of a good swell Friday.

A small trough of low pressure off the Gippsland coast is replaced by another trough system later in the week. Far to the south of this hot, soupy mess a series of stronger polar lows are traversing the Far Southern Ocean, supplying some small pulses of S swell.

Into next week and the slow moving pattern remains entrenched through most of next week with a “stuck” high pressure to the SW of WA maintaining an ESE-SE flow- depending on the positioning of an inland trough.

High pressure is now weakening with the angled monsoon trough stretched along the edge of the Coral Sea still supplying sufficient pressure gradients to maintain a tradewind flow which is generating small, fun surf.