Over the weekend, the trend reversed - and now we're looking down the barrel at the biggest and best Tasman groundswells since last June’s Black Nor’easter.
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/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2017/03/06/extended-run-large-surf-tasman-low
thermalben
Monday, 6 March 2017
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2017/03/03/dynamic-week-waves-southern-nsw-tricky
thermalben
Friday, 3 March 2017
The low forming north of Sydney right now is expected to slide S/SE during Saturday, and in doing so will swing an initial E’ly fetch around to the SE and then the South.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2017/03/01/fun-swells-finish-week-major-drought
thermalben
Wednesday, 1 March 2017
The best part of the current synoptic setup is that it’s associated with a blocking pattern, which means very little west-east movement in the broadscale systems. And this is a good thing, as it’s going to allow the weekend's Tasman Low to meander through our swell window for quite some time.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2017/02/27/fun-ene-surf-all-week-tasman-low
thermalben
Monday, 27 February 2017
A high pressure system across the south-eastern Tasman Sea and a broad area of low pressure across the tropical waters north of New Caledonia are creating an easterly squeeze between the two.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2017/02/24/average-weekend-waves-extended-period
thermalben
Friday, 24 February 2017
From here on it looks like we’ve got a blocking synoptic pattern setting up in our eastern swell window, comprising a coastal trough in NSW and a high pressure system in the south-eastern Tasman Sea. And as a result we've got some really good surf on the way.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2017/02/22/tricky-winds-and-swells-ahoy
thermalben
Wednesday, 22 February 2017
Friday has some interesting model output, which is making it bloody hard to reconcile the likely surf outcome at my end.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2017/02/20/small-swells-southern-nsw-foreseeable
thermalben
Monday, 20 February 2017
The weekend’s coastal trough is consolidating into a broad low S/SE of Tasmania at the moment.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2017/02/17/tricky-weekend-waves-small-surf
thermalben
Friday, 17 February 2017
The current NE flow off the coast will continue to generate NE swell into Saturday.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2017/02/15/peaky-mix-swells-finish-week-saturday
thermalben
Wednesday, 15 February 2017
Aim for Saturday as it’ll offer the pick of the weekend’s waves.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2017/02/13/strong-south-swell-tuesday-funky-weekend
thermalben
Monday, 13 February 2017
There’s a couple of sneaky swells on target for the weekend.
