Gold & Sunshine Coast Report issued at 5.55am Sunday 19th May 2024

Weather Forecast: Sunny, with a top temperature of 22-23°

Wind Forecast: 10kts SW/S early, becoming 15kts S/SW during the morning, possibly easing late this afternoon

Swell: 0.75-1m E/SE on the northern ends of the Sunshine and Gold Coasts and along the Tweed Coast. Smaller in the bays on the north side of headlands. It’s pretty much flat in the inner bays at Noosa

Tides: Mooloolaba: High @ 5.03am & 5.59pm … Low 11.31am

Snapper Rocks: High @ 5am & 5.55pm … Low @ 11.27am

Best waves: The swell is small and lacking power and with light SW/S winds early, look for beach breaks on the open beaches. The points have small waves, best suited to long or high volume boards and are a bit full, but should improve either side of low tide, when there’s less water on the banks 

Best Beaches: The S/SW winds will be cool and the best beaches offering shelter the wind will be the bays on the north side of the headlands at Noosa, Mooloolaba, Burleigh, Kirra, Greenmount and Rainbow Bay. It won’t be as pleasant on the open stretches of beach and there’s inshore holes and gutters along them. Any rips and sweep working around those features, will be enhanced as the water drains off the beach on the morning ebb tide, so swim in the patrolled areas marked by the red and yellow flags