Our swell windows are devoid of any major synoptic activity, and with our recent glancing southerly swell now exiting to the north, we have to look towards peripheral swell sources for the short term. More in the Forecaster Notes.
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/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2019/03/20/small-ene-swells-short-term-solid-south
thermalben
Wednesday, 20 March 2019
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2019/03/18/small-tricky-swells-and-light-winds
thermalben
Monday, 18 March 2019
The models are showing a small long period S’ly swell across Southern NSW on Tuesday and Wednesday, around half a metre at about 14-15 seconds. More in the Forecaster Notes.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2019/03/15/peaky-south-east-swell-all-weekend-one
thermalben
Friday, 15 March 2019
A coastal trough will linger about the region on Saturday, just north of Sydney, before moving south into Sunday, possibly forming a small low off the South Coast.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2019/03/13/small-beachies-dominate-few-days-next
thermalben
Wednesday, 13 March 2019
There isn’t a great deal of excitement expected for the next few days. However, a tropical system is expected to begin slowly deepening south from Tonga on Friday, and will generate a long lived E/NE swell event next week.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2019/03/11/not-particularly-great-week-waves-ahead
thermalben
Monday, 11 March 2019
There’s a lot of interesting features on the long term charts, some of which are quite plausible, and some of which are much less certain and require a variety of circumstances to eventuate. More in the Forecaster Notes.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2019/03/08/lots-unusual-swell-sources-ahead-good
thermalben
Friday, 8 March 2019
No change to the weekend outlook - it still looks pretty tricky.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2019/03/06/interesting-south-swell-weekend
thermalben
Wednesday, 6 March 2019
The weekend looks a little tricky. And, the wave models are not properly picking up any of the swells I am expecting, so this reduces confidence in the outlook.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2019/03/04/lots-fun-swells-multiple-sources
thermalben
Monday, 4 March 2019
Despite the expected longer period E/NE groundswell from TC Pola not yet showing, I still think we’re going to see some new energy later today and into Tuesday morning. More in the Forecaster Notes.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2019/03/01/building-swells-out-ene-biggest-early
thermalben
Friday, 1 March 2019
Severe Tropical Cyclone Pola - currently Category 4, south of Fiji - will curve to the south-east over the coming days.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2019/02/27/fun-outlook-ahead-looking-best-early
thermalben
Wednesday, 27 February 2019
Tropical Cyclone Pola is currently E/SE of Fiji, and tracking southwards.
