Forecasters say Gold Coast in for a bumper run of pumping surf
GOLD Coasters live in the luckiest part of the lucky country — and it gets even better if you’re a surfer. With Cyclone Tatiana tearing up the Coral Sea, surfers should be waxing up their boards.
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GOLD Coasters live in the luckiest part of the lucky country — and it gets even better if you’re a surfer.
With Cyclone Tatiana, the first east coast cyclone of the year tearing up the Coral Sea, surfers should be waxing up their boards, according to the weather bureau.
Spokesman Jess Carey said the Glitter Strip was in for a “cracking weekend” with the Category 2 cyclone creating stable, sunny conditions over the city and 31C temperatures.
“It should move the weather away from the Gold Coast leaving clear conditions,” Mr Carey said.
“There might be light showers but most people won’t even get a drop of rain.”
Thousands of surfers, including pro surfer Sally Fitzgibbons and local world champions Joel Parkinson, Stephanie Gilmore and Mick Fanning, have been ripping on high quality waves all week but it is expected to get even better from tomorrow.
Coastalwatch surf forecaster Ben Macartney said this weekend would be “swell laden” for locals with an east-south-easterly wind swell producing waves up to a metre today.
From tomorrow afternoon locals would enjoy the fruits of the cyclone, with a powerful 1.5m surf from an easterly swell which he tipped to build up to 2m on the point breaks by next Tuesday