There’s been plenty of talk in recent days about the powerful front and trough that briefly brought winter back to the southeast. Anyone brave enough to venture towards the coast would have also seen the huge waves being driven into the coast in a strong southwesterly airflow behind the front.
Victoria’s southwest coast and South Australia’s southeast coast have been battered by monstrous waves from this system, as a huge area of gale force winds allowed swells to build over several hundred kilometers, before crashing along the coasts of SA and southwest VIC Thursday night into Friday morning.
Image: Significant wave heights off southwest VIC at 10am Fri 8th via WaveWatch
On Thursday night, Cape du Couedic Light House, on Kangaroo Island recorded a peak significant wave height (Hsig) of 8.7m at 10pm ACST, with a peak height of a huge 14.8m. Less than 12 hours later, the wave buoy at Cape Bridgewater, near the town of Portland in southwest Vic recorded a peak
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