/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2024/03/27/intermittent-south-swells-the-next-few
thermalben
Wednesday, 27 March 2024

Weak coastal troughiness will contract to the North Coast on Thursday though lingering onshore SE winds are a risk north from Sydney.

/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2024/03/25/s-pulses-leading-easter-pockets-ok-0
freeride76
Monday, 25 March 2024

For now, frontal activity is being allowed to track in a more favourable manner for S swell production so we’ll seea week of small/moderate S swell pulses leading into the Easter weekend.

/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2024/03/25/s-pulses-leading-easter-pockets-ok-wind
freeride76
Monday, 25 March 2024

For now, frontal activity is being allowed to track in a more favourable manner for S swell production so we’ll see a week of small/moderate S swell pulses leading into the Easter weekend.

/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2024/03/21/small-fun-weekend-ahead-series-s-pulses
freeride76
Friday, 22 March 2024

S swells from frontal activity now look a notch more active next week as the W-E progression of the next high cell (and subsequently fronts) slows and allows more intrusion into the lower Tasman.

/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2024/03/19/spike-in-windy-s-swell-then-easing-trend
freeride76
Wednesday, 20 March 2024

The NZ high has generated a useful fetch of tradewinds in the eastern swell window, which has maintained E’ly swells in the sub-tropics, E/NE in temperate regions. That trade fetch breaks down in the short term before rebuilding again at more Northern latitudes. We’ll see some frontal activity over the weekend before another strong, blocking high sets up a ridge next week. 

/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2024/03/18/fun-mixed-bag-week-summer-pattern-slowly
freeride76
Monday, 18 March 2024

We’ll see this pattern disrupted mid-week by an aggressive trough which brings S winds and swell before the next high slowly resets the trade pattern, this time further north in the Coral Sea.

/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2024/03/15/plenty-swell-just-gotta-work-around-the
thermalben
Friday, 15 March 2024

Today’s onshore pattern will contract to the North Coast on Saturday, and Sunday looks very interesting with a new long period S/SE groundswell.

/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2024/03/12/very-busy-outlook-ahead-windows-real
freeride76
Wednesday, 13 March 2024

We’ve still got a broad trade wind flow in the Coral Sea, extending out into the South Pacific and anchored head and tail by low pressure along the monsoon trough. That’s producing heavy swells in the sub-tropics (full blown Point surf equivalent to cyclone swells) with a fair amount filtering down to temperate NSW. 

/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2024/03/11/dual-swells-provide-the-goods-week
thermalben
Monday, 11 March 2024

Lots of swell to look forward to this week, and winds should remain light under a weak local synoptic pattern.

/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2024/03/08/fun-week-ene-trade-swell-some-small-s
freeride76
Friday, 8 March 2024

There was a nice, lingering tail to the S swell event but we’re now entrenched in a classic late Summer pattern with strong high pressure moving into the Tasman, setting up a downstream blocking pattern and very healthy tradewind fetch through the Coral Sea, extending E into the South Pacific and south into the Northern Tasman.