The Tasman Low responsible for our three-day swell event began easing late Sunday so we’ll see a corresponding easing of surf size from now onwards.
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/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2021/12/13/fun-week-beachbreaks-ahead
thermalben
Monday, 13 December 2021
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2021/12/10/powerful-weekend-out-the-south-then
thermalben
Friday, 10 December 2021
The Tasman Low will maintain strength through Sunday, meaning Monday’s on target for strong S/SE surf
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2021/12/08/weekend-o-solid-south-swell-ahead
thermalben
Wednesday, 8 December 2021
Large S’ly swells will dominate the weekend as an impressive Tasman Low reaches a peak in strength on Saturday.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2021/12/06/patchy-outlook-the-next-few-days-windows
thermalben
Monday, 6 December 2021
A stalled trough off the coast is expected to muscle up through Thursday (see below), strengthening E/SE winds into the Far South Coast, before a Tasman Low forms along the trough line overnight Thursday, and drives southerly gales across all Southern NSW coast regions into Friday morning.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2021/12/03/junky-surf-weekend-some-very-juicy
freeride76
Friday, 3 December 2021
Strong high pressure moves E to be well south of the Bight by mid next week. An intrusion of cold air is expected to form an upper cold pool, leading to instability and the development of a surface low as the upper trough interacts with the Tasman trough, later Thurs or Fri. There’s a possibility this low may be an ECL or have characteristics similar to one, potentially including severe weather.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2021/12/01/small-grovel-surf-the-weekend-tracking
freeride76
Wednesday, 1 December 2021
High pressure is now drifting over New Zealand with multiple trough areas through the Tasman Sea, interior, and extending along the East Coast from the tropics down to temperate NSW. This is creating a moist, variable, onshore flow through the region with small surf.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2021/11/29/grovel-conditions-most-week-more-action
freeride76
Monday, 29 November 2021
We’re right up to our neck in a troughy La Nina pattern, which continues on through this week. High pressure is sitting just to the East of Tasmania, with the dissipating remains of the weekend’s trough of low pressure linked to a coastal trough extending up into the sub-tropics
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2021/11/26/soggy-la-nina-pattern-chunky-sse-swell
freeride76
Friday, 26 November 2021
The long, elongated trough line extending off the NSW Coast and angling in a NW/SE orientation towards New Zealand is now located a bit further north than modelled on Wed.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2021/11/24/lots-size-weekend-the-ssse-winds-the
freeride76
Wednesday, 24 November 2021
Lots of S quarter swell and wind from the same direction this weekend. With the trough extending out from the NSW South Coast towards the South Island, and a long fetch of S/SSE gales developing through the lower Tasman, there’ll be no shortage of size.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2021/11/22/lots-short-period-energy-in-the-short
freeride76
Monday, 22 November 2021
Our current unstable, stormy pattern is being driven by a peanut-shaped high straddling Tasmania, and multiple troughs of low pressure, stretching from the interior of NSW, out to the Mid North Coast and South Pacific near New Zealand’s North Island.
