Sydney, Hunter and Illawarra Surf Forecast by Ben Matson (issued Wednesday 26th March)
Best Days: Sat: peaky NE swell with early W/SW winds. Sun: Small mix of S'ly and NE swell with early light winds.
Recap: Light winds between the Hunter and Wollongong regions on Tuesday, along with a strong but easing E’ly swell. Smaller surf today with generally light winds tending NE and freshening.
The weekend started off average with an onshore breeze and 2ft or so of swell with no real quality.
Sunday saw cleaner conditions with a smaller and easing 1-2ft of swell under offshore winds. Today another pulse of swell has started to fill in keeping 1-2ft waves hitting Clifton with light offshores, but these have since given into SE sea breezes.
South Australian Forecast (issued Monday 24th March)
Best Days: Every morning from Wednesday onwards
Recap
A solid S/SW groundswell filled in Saturday as fresh morning E/NE winds favoured the Goolwa end of the coast as well as protected locations around Victor and further west. The Mid Coast was clean but tiny.
The swell eased into Sunday as winds tended variable during the morning creating lumpy/glassy conditions while the afternoon was torn to shreds with a fresh sea breeze.
Sydney, Hunter and Illawarra Surf Forecast by Ben Matson (issued Friday 21st March)
Best Days: Sat/Sun: small, fun peaky waves with light variable winds. Late Sun/Mon/Tues: very inconsistent E/NE groundswell but with generally average/poor conditions from Mon morning onwards.
Recap: Small peaky swells Thursday, increasing a little today. Mainly light variable winds in most areas, but freshening from the NE in the south.
Eastern Tasmania Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Friday 21st March)
Best Days: Monday morning at south swell magnets, dawn Wednesday at open beaches
Recap
Tiny surf persisted into yesterday, while today a new NE windswell is on the build and should of peaked around 2ft across north-east facing beaches during the middle of the day as winds swing offshore ahead of a strong change.
Best Days: Sunday morning, Tuesday, Wednesday morning, Thursday morning
Recap
The surf was fun yesterday morning with a dropping swell and clean conditions under an offshore wind that persisted nearly all day.
Today the surf started out tiny and clean but a change has since moved through creating poor conditions. A new swell should also arrive later in the day but conditions will be terrible.
Sydney, Hunter and Illawarra Surf Forecast by Ben Matson (issued Wednesday 26th March)
Best Days: Sat: peaky NE swell with early W/SW winds. Sun: Small mix of S'ly and NE swell with early light winds.
Recap: Light winds between the Hunter and Wollongong regions on Tuesday, along with a strong but easing E’ly swell. Smaller surf today with generally light winds tending NE and freshening.
This week (Mar 27-28 onwards)