It's Open Season as a Large Easterly Swell Ramps up Across Southern Queensland This Weekend Swell Alert: ESE Ramps Up to Kick Off the 2020 Tropical Swell Season Photo: Billy Watts Link copied to clipboard As of this weekend the tropical swell-season kicks into gear across southern Queensland, following the rapid approach of a deepening trough and surface low, towards the southern Queensland coast over the next 48 hours. Its onset triggers a rapid transformation in surfing conditions across the region: ratcheting up from a still fun-sized, peaky SE windswell on Saturday morning, to a relentless double to triple overhead plus as the bulk of energy builds in on Sunday afternoon.