The squeeze between a 1001 hPa low off the South Coast and 1030 hPa high moving through the Eastern Bight is producing a line of gales off the NSW South Coast, extending northwards up to the Hunter and southwards into the Tasman Sea.
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/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2022/03/09/solid-surf-slowly-easing-the-weekend
freeride76
Wednesday, 9 March 2022
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2022/03/07/another-wild-week-ahead-low-forms-coast
Another wild week ahead as a low forms off coast tomorrow, bringing plenty of wind and swell (again)
freeride76
Monday, 7 March 2022
This fetch provides a pulse of S to S/SE swell before another low forms in the trough line off the NSW Central Coast Tues, rapidly re-invigorating a robust S to S/SE fetch off the South to Central Coast before slowly drifting off to the SE later this week.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2022/03/04/plenty-more-strong-swell-energy-incoming
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 he bight. More on this later it’ll generate hepas of swell next week once it spins up.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2022/02/28/wild-week-wind-rain-and-swell-ahead
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/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2022/02/25/la-niñ-summer-goes-out-bang-heaps-wind
freeride76
Friday, 25 February 2022
Lots of action next week. We’ve got a stack of strong E to E/NE swell incoming- with some model variability suggesting we’ll need some further fine tuning next week.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2022/02/23/plenty-get-frothed-over-autumn-begins
freeride76
Wednesday, 23 February 2022
This will be generated by the increasing E to E/NE winds in the deep E’ly wind field retrograding S and W towards NSW as a large area of tropical low pressure off the QLD coast starts to deepen and move S.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2022/02/21/dont-put-the-small-wave-board-away-yet
freeride76
Monday, 21 February 2022
The latter part of the week will see a NE flow develop, with periods of light NW breezes inshore. Trade flows across the South Coral and Northern Tasman Sea won’t be particularly strong this week but the broad scale coverage of winds will be enough to see a modest building trend into Thurs and Fri.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2022/02/18/not-much-in-the-short-term-more-promise
thermalben
Friday, 18 February 2022
The southerly change pushing up Southern NSW this afternoon doesn’t have a lot of strength nor longevity in its fetch, but we do have some swell potential for the weekend.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2022/02/16/patchy-the-next-week-or-so
thermalben
Wednesday, 16 February 2022
The swell window’s a little quiet at the moment, so we’re not expecting much surf for the rest of the week.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2022/02/14/back-more-typical-week-small-summer-surf
freeride76
Monday, 14 February 2022
We’re looking at a steep easing trend and a week of small surf as high pressure moves a little more northwards than it has so far this La Niña Summer. Under the influence of the high pressure belt it’ll be a week of N to NE’ly winds and a small blend of E’ly swell trains.
