It's a classic "Summer" looking synoptic pattern and indicative of the La Nina pattern hanging on.
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/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2022/04/04/lots-swell-ahead-few-days-onshore-wind
freeride76
Monday, 4 April 2022
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2022/04/01/large-s-swell-settles-down-quickly
freeride76
Friday, 1 April 2022
That will offer a window of improving conditions at Big Wave Spots, albeit under strong offshore conditions, which will make any offshore bombies hard to ride.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2022/03/30/big-and-windy-waves-ahead-options-big
freeride76
Wednesday, 30 March 2022
A trough of low pressure associated with the current sub-tropical low deepens rapidly through tomorrow in response to the influx of cold air, forming a storm force low pressure system off the NSW Central Coast overnight Thursday into Friday.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2022/03/28/couple-smaller-days-ahead-storm-force
freeride76
Monday, 28 March 2022
OK, it’s going to be a wild week so lets look at the moving parts and sketch out the order of events, whilst acknowledging that it will be a highly dynamic outlook requiring fine tuning as the troughs, front, upper trough and expected eventual storm force surface low all interact.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2022/03/25/tricky-troughy-outlook-the-weekend-major
freeride76
Friday, 25 March 2022
This is then augmented by a major front pushing into the Tasman, merging with the surface low to create a large area of low pressure in the Tasman.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2022/03/23/onshore-winds-setting-in-few-small
freeride76
Wednesday, 23 March 2022
The trough is connected to a parent low pushing through the lower Tasman, but the combination of short period SE and longer period S swells will be marred by an onshore flow for most of this week and the weekend.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2022/03/21/lots-funky-wind-changes-week-small-surf
freeride76
Monday, 21 March 2022
In the short run and an elongated “bubble” high sits along the NSW coast through tomorrow, bringing a cracker of a day with light offshore breezes which will tend N/NE through the day.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2022/03/18/swell-the-s-weekend-and-next-week-some
freeride76
Friday, 18 March 2022
That front then forms a low, which becomes slow moving as it tracks NE towards the North Island. Swell is incoming from the front and the low, generating swell from the southern quadrant over the weekend and into next week.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2022/03/16/improving-conditions-through-the-end-the
freeride76
Wednesday, 16 March 2022
Bit of an upgrade now for Sunday as a parent low tracks into the Tasman Friday with a much healthier fetch fetch of S to SSW winds extending through the lower Tasman.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2022/03/14/lots-punchy-ese-swell-ahead-conditions
freeride76
Monday, 14 March 2022
The current high cell in the Tasman has a trough of low pressure perched atop it, maintaining an E’ly fetch at a southerly latitude- roughly due East of Sydney.
