We’ve got an interesting looking pattern as we transition into Summer, with both active frontal systems transiting below the continent and a precursor monsoonal trough across the top end of Australia. A front pushing into the Tasman Sea and a deeper parent low bring S swell pulses this week while a trough of low pressure is expected to hive off the precursor monsoon trough mid week and sit in the Coral Sea later this week, bringing E swell for the Eastern Seaboard- initially to the sub-tropics and then spreading down to temperate NSW over the weekend at reduced levels.
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/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2022/11/28/small-s-swell-pulses-tend-small-ene
freeride76
Monday, 28 November 2022
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2022/11/24/small-bits-and-pieces-over-the-weekend
freeride76
Friday, 25 November 2022
By Wed we’ll see a pattern change as a strong high pressure belt straddles Tasmania and we start to see the influence of a trough associated with the monsoon off the QLD Coast.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2022/11/23/strong-s-swell-pulse-incoming-tomorrow
freeride76
Wednesday, 23 November 2022
We’ve had the entrees for this S swell event and we’re now close to the main course with a deep low (977hPa) and gales tracking NE into the Tasman from behind Tasmania. These gales are on track to deliver the juiciest pulse of this event through tomorrow, with weak high pressure moving over NSW.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2022/11/21/another-week-over-lapping-s-swell-pulses
freeride76
Monday, 21 November 2022
Yesterday’s W’ly change was the herald for a strong frontal progression which is currently unfolding at the gateway to the Tasman Sea. We have a front tied to a small low E of Tasmania with a much deeper parent low well to the south of Tasmania. There are multiple swell generating fetches associated with this complex low arrangement.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2022/11/18/mixed-bag-over-the-weekend-s-swells-fade
freeride76
Friday, 18 November 2022
We’re past the peak of the current S swell event as the large low pressure system drifts towards New Zealand, weakening as it does so and a more mobile high pressure system moves north-east into the Tasman Sea, bringing N’ly winds.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2022/11/16/south-winds-and-swell-the-rest-the-week
freeride76
Wednesday, 16 November 2022
The low east of Tasmania moves NE and joins other areas of troughy low pressure to form a large low pressure gyre which occupies most of the Tasman Sea through the latter part of this week. Surf size will be limited by the relatively weak supporting high pressure cell which is currently tracking through the Bight. We’re still looking at plenty of moderate size surf from the S quadrant to end the week and carry through into the start of the weekend.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2022/11/14/energetic-pattern-week-plenty-wind-and
freeride76
Monday, 14 November 2022
Through the early part of this week the low slips SE of Tas and a complex, troughy pattern with multiple low centres sits in the Tasman. This complex low pressure area eventually gets squeezed by an oncoming high generating fresh S’lies and which overlap with deeper S’ly fetches to create a series of S swells later this week.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2022/11/11/few-options-the-weekend-if-you-can-work
freeride76
Friday, 11 November 2022
A Bass Strait fetch later Mon should provide some small refracted S swell later Tues, likely missing the South Coast-Illawarra stretch and showing from Sydney to the Hunter with some 2-3ft sets in the a’noon.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2022/11/09/fun-summer-style-surf-continues-week
freeride76
Wednesday, 9 November 2022
A long trough through the Coral Sea and South Pacific with embedded low pressure centres is not tightening the pressure gradient to the extent modelled. As a result surf is coming in at the low end of f/cast expectations, and this soft trend is expected to continue.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2022/11/07/summer-style-winds-and-swell-week-juicy
freeride76
Monday, 7 November 2022
We’re looking at a fairly static, summer-style blocking pattern this week with semi-stationary high pressure in the Tasman, and a ridge up along the Eastern seaboard with SE winds in the North, E/NE to NE winds from the Mid North Coast down to Southern NSW. A long trough line extending from the Solomon Islands to the North Island spins off some small low pressure areas this week. Although not quite as spectacular as model runs suggested last week we’re still in for some fun E swell this week with a juicier pulse expected late this weekend.
