/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2022/12/16/wait-theres-more-the-tasman-low
thermalben
Friday, 16 December 2022

A reintensification of the Tasman Low on Saturday and Sunday - further east, near New Zealand - will generate a renewal of strong S/SE thru SE swell for Monday.

/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2022/12/14/large-and-windy-due-south-plus-some-east
thermalben
Wednesday, 14 December 2022

That's right, we're looking at a week of waves from a single swell source.

/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2022/12/12/stacks-flukey-sly-swell-and-another-the
thermalben
Monday, 12 December 2022

The next round of swell will be acute from the south, sourced from W/SW gales exiting eastern Bass Strait from this evening onwards, in associated with the same change that rocketed across the coast this afternoon.

/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2022/12/09/strong-the-south-then-the-east
thermalben
Friday, 9 December 2022

The real juice is lining up from the E/NE later next week.

/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2022/12/07/strong-the-south-few-days-long-range
thermalben
Wednesday, 7 December 2022

No major changes to the forecast for the rest of the week, if anything an upgrade in size for the next south swell.

/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2022/12/05/coupla-decent-south-swells-in-the-mix
thermalben
Monday, 5 December 2022

This change will be linked in with a low off the eastern Tasmanian coast, and gale force S/SW winds will develop through the swell window, generating a decent southerly swell for Wednesday

/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2022/12/01/low-pressure-in-the-coral-sea-supplies
freeride76
Friday, 2 December 2022

A slow moving low pressure system is currently off the QLD coast generating plenty of size for the subtropics. Windspeeds along the southern flank are just a notch higher than modelled on Wed so we’ll see a corresponding uptick in size across the f/cast region as swell radiates away from the source fetch.

/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2022/11/30/small-swells-and-onshore-winds-the
freeride76
Wednesday, 30 November 2022

We are seeing the “schizoid” pattern now develop whereby a monsoonal trough is splitting off a low pressure trough along the CQ coast, supported by a high pressure belt from the Bight to the Tasman Sea, while fronts and a parent low are entering the lower Tasman. That is seeing a regime where both S swells and a developing E’ly swell event are both in play across most of the Eastern Seaboard.

/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2022/11/28/small-s-swell-pulses-tend-small-ene
freeride76
Monday, 28 November 2022

We’ve got an interesting looking pattern as we transition into Summer, with both active frontal systems transiting below the continent and a precursor monsoonal trough across the top end of Australia. A front pushing into the Tasman Sea and a deeper parent low bring S swell pulses this week while a trough of low pressure is expected to hive off the precursor monsoon trough mid week and sit in the Coral Sea later this week, bringing E swell for the Eastern Seaboard- initially to the sub-tropics and then spreading down to temperate NSW over the weekend at reduced levels.

/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2022/11/24/small-bits-and-pieces-over-the-weekend
freeride76
Friday, 25 November 2022

By Wed we’ll see a pattern change as a strong high pressure belt straddles Tasmania and we start to see the influence of a trough associated with the monsoon off the QLD Coast.