Gold & Sunshine Coast Report issued at 5.55am Wednesday 22nd May 2024

Weather Forecast: Partly cloudy with a low to medium chance of showers and a top temperature of 22-23°

Wind Forecast: 5-10kts S/SW early, becoming 10-15kts this morning, swinging S/SE during the day and averaging 15kts at times

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

Tides: Mooloolaba: High @ 6.54am & 7.42pm … Low 1pm

Snapper Rocks: High @ 6.54am & 7.26pm … Low @ 12.49pm

Best waves: The swell is still small and lacking power and with light S/SW winds early, look for waves on the beach breaks and on the points, but 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