No change to the outlook, very weak pressure gradients in the Coral Sea and an absence of swell generating winds extends through the last week of 2023 and right through the first week of 2024.
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/reports/forecaster-notes/central-queensland/2023/12/25/tiny-surf-closes-out-2023
freeride76
Monday, 25 December 2023
/reports/forecaster-notes/central-queensland/2023/12/08/pumping-surf-stc-jasper
freeride76
Friday, 8 December 2023
Severe TC Jasper has been slow moving and intensifying (Category 4 now) over the last 36hrs. It’s slow (2-3kts) S/SW track between 158-156E is in the NE swell window. That aids confidence in some NE groundswell from STC Jasper over the weekend.
/reports/forecaster-notes/central-queensland/2023/12/06/building-swells-later-week-becoming-very
freeride76
Wednesday, 6 December 2023
By Fri Cat 3 or above TC Jasper will be in the middle of the Coral Sea with increasing swells for CQ.
/reports/forecaster-notes/central-queensland/2023/12/04/building-swells-later-week-becoming-very
freeride76
Monday, 4 December 2023
The headline feature is a potential major tropical cyclone drifting into the Coral Sea with a poleward (southwards) track late this week, over the weekend and into next week. It’s still early days but under certain modelled outcomes we could see a coast hugging system bringing large swells to the CQ coast.
/reports/forecaster-notes/central-queensland/2023/12/01/tiny-weekend-possible-cyclone-swell-next-week
freeride76
Friday, 1 December 2023
Further ahead and some weather model runs are starting to look pretty damn juicy with respect to a developing TC in the South Pacific moving into the Coral Sea next week. Still very early days but a full blown cyclone swell is now a definite possibility, possibly as early as late next week and into the weekend.
/reports/forecaster-notes/central-queensland/2023/11/29/remaining-tiny-some-hope-the-horizon
freeride76
Wednesday, 29 November 2023
A new high pressure system moves E of Tasmania next week and there is some suggestion we’ll see a SE surge up the coast Tues, with a developing trade-wind flow through the rest of next week. Models are still divergent about the strength of the tradewinds so we’ll keep our jets cooled at far as size goes for now.
/reports/forecaster-notes/central-queensland/2023/11/27/glassed-out-and-tiny-conditions
freeride76
Monday, 27 November 2023
Meanwhile the Coral Sea remains filled with weak winds, mostly glassed out over the short term with a N’ly flow developing mid week. We’re looking at continuing tiny/flat conditions this week with just minor NE windswell unlikely to be rideable.
/reports/forecaster-notes/central-queensland/2023/11/22/surf-easing-back-tiny-over-the-weekend
freeride76
Wednesday, 22 November 2023
It’s a weak synoptic pattern with no major swell sources and especially light winds across the Coral Sea.That will keep this f/cast update short- no surf to speak of.
/reports/forecaster-notes/central-queensland/2023/11/20/tiny-surf-ahead-week
freeride76
Monday, 20 November 2023
With weak winds in the Coral Sea we’ll see tiny surf this week. Not dead flat, there’ll be just enough swell energy from a constant regime of weak E’ly winds to hold a very small weak swell, possibly just surfable on low tides.
/reports/forecaster-notes/central-queensland/2023/11/17/small-surf-the-weekend-downgraded-outlook
freeride76
Friday, 17 November 2023
Into next week and a large blocking high moving into the Tasman over the weekend is now weaker than expected and the resultant trade flow through the Coral Sea is also much weaker.
Therefore we’re now only looking at tiny surf for next week
