We’ve got a weak, troughy pattern in the Tasman Sea, with a minor cold front passing to the SE of Tasmania and a new high pressure cell poised to enter the Tasman in it’s wake. The high cell is weak so we’re looking at a fairly uninspiring end to Summer, with some mid week NE windswell for Southern NSW and small background E swells for the sub-tropics.
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/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2024/02/25/quiet-end-summer-robust-s-swell-the
freeride76
Monday, 26 February 2024
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2024/02/22/s-and-e-swells-over-the-weekend-quiet
freeride76
Friday, 23 February 2024
High pressure in the Bight with a trough moving up the coast and robust low (974hPa) moving under Tasmania sets the scene for the weekend.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2024/02/21/fun-beachies-persist-then-round-the
thermalben
Wednesday, 21 February 2024
The rest of the week looks pretty fun.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2024/02/19/beachbreaks-teh-win
thermalben
Monday, 19 February 2024
Lots of fun beachbreak surf on tap for this week.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2024/02/15/plenty-fun-over-the-weekend-more
freeride76
Friday, 16 February 2024
High pressure belt remains strong with cells lined up to enter the Tasman. A monsoonal low in the Gulf of Carpenteria is generating a long cloud band down the east coast. A long, broad E’ly tradewind fetch extends from the Coral Sea into the South Pacific with the tail of the fetch in Tahitian longitudes.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2024/02/14/steady-drumbeat-fun-tradewind-swell-the
freeride76
Wednesday, 14 February 2024
Our current pattern of slow moving high pressure near New Zealand is still well entrenched with a modest cold front sweeping into the Tasman and bringing a S’ly change to temperate NSW. Multiple cells of reinforcing high pressure then one by one move into the Tasman, maintaining a weak ridge up the NSW Coast and a deep E’ly flow through the South Pacific and Eastern Coral Sea, with resulting E’ly swells favouring the sub-tropics for size.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2024/02/12/ely-tradewind-swell-filters-down-week
freeride76
Monday, 12 February 2024
Large high in the Tasman directing plenty of E’ly-SE’ly tradewinds through the Coral Sea and South Pacific slot. Typical summer wind pattern with NE winds developing across temperate NSW, tending more E-E/SE in the sub-tropics.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2024/02/08/lot-swell-energy-work-weekend-improving
freeride76
Friday, 9 February 2024
We’ve got a very strong high pressure belt at the moment with a cell in the Tasman (twin cells actually, straddling New Zealand) and monster high moving in from the Bight. A trough off the NSW coast is focusing SE winds along the Eastern Seaboard, with a strong front/low traversing the Lower Tasman.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2024/02/07/complex-outlook-lots-opportunity
thermalben
Wednesday, 7 February 2024
As Steve mentioned on Monday, the synoptic are quite complex at the moment.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2024/02/04/swell-sources-around-the-compass-short
freeride76
Monday, 5 February 2024
To the south, a severe gale to storm force fetch off the ice shelf from a retrograding low under the South Island sends a rare S/SE groundswell up the Pipe, with another strong front/low late this week into the weekend expected to generate another pulse of S’ly groundswell over the weekend.
