/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2024/11/12/troughy-pattern-throwing-some-dynamic
freeride76
Wednesday, 13 November 2024

Troughiness next week does offer potential for low pressure development in the Tasman but we’ve got high model variability so confidence is very low in the outcomes. 

/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2024/11/10/more-swell-energy-week-tricky-troughy
freeride76
Monday, 11 November 2024

Another unstable, troughy week ahead with humid, unstable air over the continent creating a series of troughs, one of which forms a slow moving trough of low pressure off the Mid North Coast which interacts with a weak high pressure cell drifting in the Tasman. That will supply some workable E quadrant swell favouring temperate NSW.

/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2024/11/07/small-and-weak-weekend-longer-term
freeride76
Friday, 8 November 2024

No change to the weekend surf outlook which remains small and weak but winds will be all over the place as a trough of low pressure hovers about the NSW central/MNC coast.

/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2024/11/05/power-remains-low-and-over-the-weekend
freeride76
Wednesday, 6 November 2024

S groundswell is still on the radar as a slow moving polar low tied to Fridays front skirts the southern edge of the swell window, over the weekend.

/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2024/11/03/mediocre-outlook-week-little-more-the
freeride76
Monday, 4 November 2024

We’ll be relying on some small NE windswell episodes and great circle paths under the continent to deliver some flukey S groundswell short and medium term. 

/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2024/11/01/mediocre-outlook-ne-windswell-sunmon-the
freeride76
Friday, 1 November 2024

High pressure slides into the Tasman off the Central NSW coast while the remnants of a front scoot across the Tasman. The front will have generated a small flush of S swell.

/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2024/10/30/grovel-days-ahead-low-energy-outlook
freeride76
Wednesday, 30 October 2024

We’re still looking at a fairly bland synoptic pattern with a weak, troughy environment in the Tasman, undergirded by zonal frontal activity well to the south. Some modest frontal activity pushes through late in the week with a developing N’ly flow on Sun set to provide some NE windswell.

/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2024/10/27/weak-troughy-pattern-in-the-tasman-week
freeride76
Monday, 28 October 2024

High pressure drifts into the Bight but weakens as the week progresses with a weak high cell budding off and moving NE into the Tasman. The result is a weak, troughy pattern in the Tasman and inland- unstable but not very surfy.

/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2024/10/24/energy-the-s-over-the-weekend-improving
freeride76
Friday, 25 October 2024

A complex but disjointed low has formed in the Tasman with diffuse centres off the North Coast and Tasmania/Gippsland coast. We’ll see various S swells generated by proximate and distal fetches from this system over the weekend and into next week. 

/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2024/10/22/troughy-tasman-looks-deliver-more-low
freeride76
Wednesday, 23 October 2024

Lingering troughiness in the Tasman may see yet another low form next week- which would be the 4th successive surface low to form in October. Models are struggling to resolve this complex and unstable pattern so low confidence results.