The low east of Tasmania moves NE and joins other areas of troughy low pressure to form a large low pressure gyre which occupies most of the Tasman Sea through the latter part of this week. Surf size will be limited by the relatively weak supporting high pressure cell which is currently tracking through the Bight. We’re still looking at plenty of moderate size surf from the S quadrant to end the week and carry through into the start of the weekend.
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/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2022/11/16/s-swells
freeride76
Wednesday, 16 November 2022
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2022/11/14/plenty-wind
freeride76
Monday, 14 November 2022
Through the early part of this week the low slips SE of Tas and a complex, troughy pattern with multiple low centres sits in the Tasman. This complex low pressure area eventually gets squeezed by an oncoming high generating fresh S’lies and which overlap with deeper S’ly fetches to create a series of S swells later this week.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2022/11/11/spring-conditions
freeride76
Friday, 11 November 2022
We’re looking at a complicated synoptic set-up from Wed next week with multiple small low pressure troughs off the NSW Coast and the remnants of a cut-off low which tracks SE into the Tasman as it weakens.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2022/11/09/summer-style
freeride76
Wednesday, 9 November 2022
We’re in the middle of the blocking pattern which is coming in a little weaker than modelled. High pressure (1025hPa) sits in the Central Tasman directing a fairly insipid SE flow through most of the Central/Northern Tasman and extending into the Coral Sea. A long trough through the Coral Sea and South Pacific with embedded low pressure centres is not tightening the pressure gradient to the extent modelled. As a result surf is coming in at the low end of f/cast expectations, and this soft trend is expected to continue.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2022/11/07/summer-style
freeride76
Monday, 7 November 2022
We’re looking at a fairly static, summer-style blocking pattern this week with semi-stationary high pressure in the Tasman, and a ridge up along the Eastern seaboard with SE winds in the North, E/NE to NE winds from the Mid North Coast down to Southern NSW. A long trough line extending from the Solomon Islands to the North Island spins off some small low pressure areas this week. Although not quite as spectacular as model runs suggested last week we’re still in for some fun E swell this week with a juicier pulse expected late this weekend.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2022/11/04/downgraded-e
freeride76
Friday, 4 November 2022
Charts have looked great all week with a low pressure system drifting in from the Coral Sea inside the North Island but the bad news is the low is now expected to track down the outside of the North Island with a major downgrade in swell potential.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2022/11/02/workable-s-swell
freeride76
Wednesday, 2 November 2022
While they are not ideally positioned for maximal S swell production up the East Coast we are still looking at some useful S swell pulses over the rest of the week and into the weekend. Following that we are back to a typical summer pattern with plenty of fun E swell expected next week.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2022/10/31/mostly-tiny-week
freeride76
Monday, 31 October 2022
While we won’t get the full payload of S’ly swell from this system as the system gets shunted SW as it enters the swell window (NE would be ideal!) we’re still on track for a few usable S swell pulses this week mostly south of the border, with a trailing frontal system providing bigger S swell into and over the weekend.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2022/10/28/tiny-surf-ahead
freeride76
Friday, 28 October 2022
Our Autumnal run of surf and condition is now going to be replaced by a more late winter-style pattern, dominated by W’ly winds. A complex low pressure gyre is located over Tasmania with a trough having moved offshore from the NSW coast and a cold front pushing through Bass Strait today.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2022/10/26/easing-surf-the
freeride76
Wednesday, 26 October 2022
Our Coral Sea low is now sitting just NE of Tasmania where it has merged with an exiting interior low to form a large, slow moving low-pressure gyre. Troughs are still snaking across Australia with a long trough line extending from the low pressure gyre through inland NSW up towards QLD and then into the Northern Territory, expected to move offshore through today. More inland troughs approach the coast during the rest of this week, driving an unstable but basically NW’ly to W’ly biased wind flow across the f/cast region through the end of the week with easing swells.
