The surf outlook for SE Qld and Northern NSW is relatively straightforward, all thanks to an anchored ridge across the Northern Tasman Sea.
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/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2024/02/07/days-and-days
thermalben
Wednesday, 7 February 2024
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2024/02/05/extended-trade
freeride76
Monday, 5 February 2024
A semi-stationary area of low pressure in the Coral Sea is anchoring a broad trade-wind flow with an extended tradeswell event ahead.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2024/02/02/long-period-s
freeride76
Friday, 2 February 2024
Common to all major models is a robust tradewind flow through the Coral and Northern Tasman which will favour the sub-tropics for size into the weekend 10-11/2 and hold plenty of pulsey E’ly tradewind swell through most of next week from Tues.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2024/01/31/some-clean-bits
freeride76
Wednesday, 31 January 2024
The monsoon remains active with a small sub-tropical low moving E off the QLD coast where it may undergo further development In the Coral Sea in the medium term. A typical summer tradewind band cradles this low next week with plenty of E quadrant swell expected, favouring the sub-tropics for size.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2024/01/29/few-small-fun
freeride76
Monday, 29 January 2024
Strong S swell expected this weekend (mostly Sun) as a front with gales to strong gales tied to a complex parent low drifts slowly through the far Southern Tasman.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2024/01/26/low-energy
freeride76
Friday, 26 January 2024
Further ahead and the tropics remains active with a long monsoon trough extending from the Coral Sea out into the South Pacific Convergence Zone. Strongest winds are the monsoonal surge nor-westers along the top of the trough but there are signs more favourable E’ly winds will develop along the bottom of the trough later next week, favouring sub-tropical regions for small E swell either later next weekend to into the week 5/2
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2024/01/24/not-much-all-tc
freeride76
Wednesday, 24 January 2024
After an extended period of eyes on the tropics there’s not too much to get excited about as the current E swell event winds down. We’re still waiting for TC Kirrily to form (already called by the Joint Typhoon Warning Centre) and when it does it’s expected to take a straight SW-W/SW track into the NQ coast, crossing around Townsville tomorrow evening. No swell of any significance is expected from this system south of the border- with only marginal N/NE swells showing at a few spots in QLD (mostly north of K’gari (Fraser Is))
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2024/01/22/tc-now-expected
freeride76
Monday, 22 January 2024
All the headline action is in the tropics with a cyclone (TC Kirrily) expected to form within the next 24-36hrs in the monsoon trough NE of Cairns. A coastal crossing in N.QLD now looks the most likely outcome with limited surf potential for our region, at least in the short/medium term.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2024/01/19/plenty-fun-waves
freeride76
Friday, 19 January 2024
A compact low is tracking SE away from Tasmania with a nice slingshot fetch in the process of entering the Tasman adjacent to the Apple Isle. A retrograding fetch in the South Pacific is currently active and expected to send some fun surf our way over the weekend and into early next week.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2024/01/17/e-swell-and-light
freeride76
Wednesday, 17 January 2024
In the South Pacific we have a retrograding trough of low pressure along a tradewind band and finally, the Northern Australian Monsoon (NAM) is in full swing and a tropical low is expected to bud off the end of the monsoon trough into and over the weekend, with a reasonable likelihood of cyclogenesis into next week.
