That front then forms a low, which becomes slow moving as it tracks NE towards the North Island. Swell is incoming from the front and the low, generating swell from the southern quadrant.
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/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2022/03/18/winds-continue
freeride76
Friday, 18 March 2022
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2022/03/16/slow-easing-the
freeride76
Wednesday, 16 March 2022
Both these fetches are going to supply fun sized mid period swells going into the weekend with a front and low expected in the Tasman Sea over the weekend.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2022/03/14/fun-waves-ahead
freeride76
Monday, 14 March 2022
A stronger high at at even more Southerly latitude is South-west of Tasmania and tracking into the lower Tasman to replace the current high cell. This will reinforce the SE’ly fetch and maintain a weak onshore flow on the coast.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2022/03/11/combination
freeride76
Friday, 11 March 2022
The next high pressure system moves into the lower Tasman Mon, at a very southerly latitude, even by La Niña standards.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2022/03/09/fun-combination
freeride76
Wednesday, 9 March 2022
This fetch is producing a fast rising S swell through today in Southern NSW, with the bulk of the swell generation for our f/cast region occurring once the fetch moves out of swell shadow of the Hunter curve.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2022/03/07/another-very
freeride76
Monday, 7 March 2022
This fetch is enhanced by a pressure gradient squeeze with another strong high currently moving East in the Bight. Meanwhile, out in the South Pacific a sub-tropical low is deepening well E of the North Island with a well aimed fetch expected to be aimed at the sub-tropics generating a long range E’ly groundswell for the weekend.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2022/03/04/heaps-more-swell
freeride76
Friday, 4 March 2022
That marks the emergence of another major system, as the remnants of the trough/low get re-energised by another upper disturbance being pushed Eastwards by a high in the bight.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2022/02/28/stacks-e-swell
freeride76
Monday, 28 February 2022
This is maintaining a deep E’ly flow, with coastal troughs and a surface low off the NSW North Coast, now moving South.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2022/02/25/la-niñ-goes-out
freeride76
Friday, 25 February 2022
The basic building blocks of the pattern are a strong high pressure belt cradling multiple low pressure systems in the Coral Sea and South Pacific- essentially creating a huge, multi-centred low pressure gyre through a vast area of ocean to our east.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2022/02/23/days-ely-swell
freeride76
Wednesday, 23 February 2022
This will be generated by the increasing winds in the deep E’ly wind field retrograding W towards the coast as a large area of tropical low pressure off the QLD coast starts to deepen and move S.
