When is the best time for Noosa. whether that be on sunshine beach or at the national park?
i was there in november and it was a rather crappy onshore brease with 2-3"swell at sunshine beach.
or waht weather patterns should i look out for.
thanks
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In my opinion, from now thru to about the end of June is the best time for waves up here. There is always usually a bit of swell around this time of year due to the big highs filling in the Tasman giving us long SE trades (nb this year has been a horrible exception), and theres always the chance of a cyclone. April/May/june tend to see conditions gradually improve and more groundswells out of the E-S quadrant. This is the situation for most of the E coast in general, we up here tend to get the better of the E swells and those of you further S get the better from said direction. The most important thing to look for in regards to waves up here is a big fat high pressure system of 1028hpa or higher camped over NZ. This gets a long E-SE fetch across the top of it, and although you get a bit of wind from the same direction, the points can refract the swell and stay clean. As the high moves further out we usually get a few clean beachbreak mornings with the swell only gradually dropping. If there is a low above one of these highs, well then we're really in business. A situation like this looks as though it will happen over the weekend-early next week. Stay tuned.
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