Gold & Sunshine Coast Report issued at 5.50am Tuesday 21st May 2024

Weather Forecast: Partly cloudy with a 50% chance of showers, most likely from late morning and a top temperature of 23°

Wind Forecast: 5-10kts SW early, becoming 10-15kts this morning, becoming S/SE late morning

Swell: 0.75-1m E/SE on the northern end of the Gold and Sunshine Coasts Coast and along the Tweed Coast. Smaller in the bays on the north side of headlands. It’s been almost flat in the inner bays at Noosa for the past few days

Tides: Mooloolaba: High @ 6.18am & 7pm … Low 12.30pm

Snapper Rocks: High @ 6.20am & 6.58pm … Low @ 12.24pm

Best waves: With light SW winds early, look for beach breaks on the open beaches and on the points. Due to the morning high tide, the points are a bit full, but should improve either side of low tide, when there’s less water on the banks and will be the best options if the wind swings S/SE as forecast 

Best Beaches: The forecast SW/SE winds are cool and the best beaches offering wind shelter are 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