We’ve got a slow moving high sitting east of Tasmania and a trough of low pressure off the North Coast directing an onshore flow across most of the Eastern Seaboard and generating plenty of local swell.
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/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2025/04/23/onshore-winds
freeride76
Wednesday, 23 April 2025
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2025/04/21/small-mixed-bag
freeride76
Monday, 21 April 2025
We’ll see the trough bring onshore winds and swell as it moves up the NSW Coast through the first half of this week. That will mostly obscure some traces of long period S swell pushing up the Tasman. A distant low in the South Pacific currently in Tongan latitudes will send some small but good quality E’ly swell late this week, with more favourable winds.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2025/04/18/solid-weekend
thermalben
Friday, 18 April 2025
We’ve already reached the peak of this impressive event and so we’re looking at a steady drop in size both Saturday and Sunday.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2025/04/16/large-se-swells
freeride76
Wednesday, 16 April 2025
After a binary interaction between the two systems, the merged low transitions into a storm force sub-tropical low which tracks SW into the Northern Tasman. This storm force low has a broad fetch aimed directly at the East Coast, generating a large E’ly quadrant swell for Good Friday and the Easter weekend with uncommonly large swell periods for swells from that direction.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2025/04/14/chunky-trade
freeride76
Monday, 14 April 2025
We’ve got a very dynamic week ahead, anchored by very strong high pressure moving into the far-southern Tasman and acting as anvil for a deep low which is expected to form in the tropical South Pacific between New Caledonia and Vanuatu o/night into tomorrow before drifting SW into the Tasman as a deep, extra-tropical low pressure system. This system intensifies through the week and is now expected to generate a large E’ly quadrant swell for the Eastern Seaboard heading into and over the Easter weekend.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2025/04/11/summeresque
thermalben
Friday, 11 April 2025
The Sunshine Coast is best positioned for this swell (relative to the fetch alignment) and so will pick up the most size.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2025/04/09/building-ely
freeride76
Wednesday, 9 April 2025
High pressure is moving into the Tasman, strengthening as it drifts towards New Zealand, where it is expected to become a dominant “flat topped” feature, reinforced by subsequent high pressure moving into the Tasman. We’ll see a long E’ly fetch develop through the South Pacific slot through the end of this week, enhanced by a trough of low pressure near New Caledonia which is attached to a still active monsoon trough.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2025/04/07/s-swell-favouring
freeride76
Monday, 7 April 2025
A long E’ly fetch then develops in the South Pacific slot with the head of the fetch extending into the Coral Sea and Northern Tasman. E’ly swells from this source will initially favour the sub-tropics before filtering down into temperate NSW.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2025/04/04/spell-smaller
thermalben
Friday, 4 April 2025
We’ve got a small, slow weekend ahead for SE Qld. But Northern NSW is looking OK. And next weekend is shaping up really well for all coasts.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2025/04/02/easing-swells
freeride76
Wednesday, 2 April 2025
We’ll see the low meander towards the South Island for the remainder of the week, with large swells on the ease across Southern/Central NSW, much less size into the sub-tropics. A trough is sitting off the SEQLD coast directing moist SE winds along the region.
