A cold front and long trough are bringing a S’ly change to the NSW coast, extending into the sub-tropics later today and overnight. There’s not a great deal of useful swell generating winds associated with the change so only modest short range S swells are expected to accompany it. The lingering troughy pattern gets much more dynamic over the weekend (and next week) as a powerful high approaches from the Bight.
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/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2023/08/23/remaining-small
freeride76
Wednesday, 23 August 2023
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2023/08/21/small-surf-week
freeride76
Monday, 21 August 2023
The remnants of the weekends frontal systems have set up a fading off axis fetch near New Zealand with the current run of small S swells also on the way out. A weak mid week front will bring a wind change and a small flush of S swell but next week looks a bit more robust although with plenty of wind.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2023/08/18/stiff-august
freeride76
Friday, 18 August 2023
Sunday looks better, for size at least. The head of the fetch reaches almost to New Caledonia and this typically aids S swell penetration into SEQLD.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2023/08/16/brief-tricky
thermalben
Wednesday, 16 August 2023
Easing swells are expected for the rest of the week, and northerlies will give it a kick in the pants on Thursday afternoon.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2023/08/14/flukey-winds
freeride76
Monday, 14 August 2023
We’ve got a weak, troughy pattern unfolding now adjacent to the NSW Coast in the near Tasman Sea that will provide plenty of wind changes this week. A low pressure system near the South Island reached maximum strength last night and is now slowly easing, but still looking good on ASCAT (satellite windspeed) passes with S’ly strong winds to gales aimed up the Tasman pipe. That will be our main source of swell this week.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2023/08/11/small-wave
freeride76
Friday, 11 August 2023
As mentioned on Wed the weekend’s front forms a low which looks to stall in the central/eastern Tasman Sun/Mon, and possibly linger near the South Island after that. The fetch now, isn’t quite so well aimed back at the East Coast but we’re still on track for a nice pulse of S-S/SE swell.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2023/08/09/easing-surf
freeride76
Wednesday, 9 August 2023
A stronger frontal system now looks likely to be a bit delayed but stall nicely in the Eastern Tasman early next week and supply some useful S/SE swell.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2023/08/07/tradewind-swells
freeride76
Monday, 7 August 2023
A persistent tradewind fetch is in the process of resetting with a less favourable wind alignment and easing swells. No major swell sources on the radar so lets look at a few bits and pieces on offer this week.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2023/08/04/plenty-fun-ely
freeride76
Friday, 4 August 2023
Current ASCAT (satellite windspeed) passes show a very healthy fetch of SE-E/SE tradewinds extending through the Central/Southern Coral Seas with plenty of fun E’ly tradewind swell expected over the weekend.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2023/08/02/plenty-fun
freeride76
Wednesday, 2 August 2023
In the wake of a strong front earlier this week we have still have moderate S swell trains propagating through the Tasman Sea which will be one swell source through the short term. The bifurcation between the sub-tropics and temperate regions increases through the end of the week with NE windswell in the temperate areas and E’ly tradewind swells building in the sub-tropics.
