Safety Beach Weather Forecast

Coffs Coastal Waters

Wind

West to northwesterly 15 to 20 knots tending west to southwesterly 15 to 25 knots in the late morning and afternoon. Winds reaching up to 30 knots offshore south of Coffs Harbour in the late morning and afternoon.

Seas

1 to 1.5 metres, increasing to 1.5 to 2.5 metres around midday.

1st Swell

Southeasterly 1.5 to 2 metres, decreasing to 1.5 metres around midday.

Weather

The chance of a thunderstorm offshore south of Coffs Harbour early this morning. Sunny afternoon.

Weather Situation

A strong cold front is forecast to sweep the northern coastal waters early today, with fresh to strong southwesterly winds in its wake. The southerly airstream will increase further to gale-force, and large, powerful waves will develop as a low forms off the south coast and brushes the southern and central parts of the coast between today and early Saturday, before the system heads into the Tasman Sea through the weekend.