We’re midway through a pretty sleepy week, swell-wise. A high pressure cell is drifting across the interior of the continent with a trough/front connected to a high riding low pushing East of Tasmania through today. That's driving a mod/fresh synoptic W’ly flow across most of NSW and extending up into the sub-tropics.
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/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2023/06/14/small-s-swell-thurs-otherwise-tiny-surf
freeride76
Wednesday, 14 June 2023
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2023/06/12/slow-week-and-half
Craig
Monday, 12 June 2023
The coming week and a half are very slow swell wise.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2023/06/09/small-flukey-swells-ahead-mostly
freeride76
Friday, 9 June 2023
A quiet start to next week is still on the cards- in fact the whole of next week now looks fairly subdued as a complex low becomes slow moving and drives a mostly offshore flow up the Eastern Seaboard.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2023/06/07/fun-peak-in-surf-tomorrow-spell-small
freeride76
Wednesday, 7 June 2023
The evolution of the current pattern has sped up compared to Monday’s notes with high pressure drifting towards the South Island and weakening and a low centred around the North Island moving NE. A fetch off the top of the North Island is just scraping the edge of our swell window (better aimed at the sub-tropics).
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2023/06/05/pulses-sse-se-swell-week-improving-winds
freeride76
Monday, 5 June 2023
A huge (1035hPa) high is sitting E of Tasmania with a low pressure system straddling New Zealand. The high is directing moist onshore winds right up the Eastern Seaboard, while the low has several swell producing fetches associated with it, albeit nothing too major.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2023/06/02/more-s-swells-next-week-patches-onshore
freeride76
Friday, 2 June 2023
A front pushing aggressively NE into the lower Tasman on the weekend forms a low pressure centre which becomes slow moving near New Zealand early next week and this will be our dominant swell source for the week.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2023/05/31/more-s-swells-and-offshore-winds-kick
freeride76
Wednesday, 31 May 2023
No great change to the current pattern with a large high sitting very far up (right up on the QLD/NSW border!) allowing free passage for cold fronts into the lower Tasman and a generally synoptic W’ly flow to continue across the region. Mostly long period S swell trains will continue to the be the dominant swell source until next week when a much more S’ly located high brings an onshore flow to most of the Eastern Seaboard.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2023/05/29/small-clean-week-s-swell-round-autumn
freeride76
Monday, 29 May 2023
Very wintry looking synoptic chart as we exit autumn with a large high moving in over the continent with active cold fronts tied to low pressure systems tracking into the Tasman Sea. That pattern will extend through most of the week before a high cell drops into the Tasman Friday, with stronger frontal activity expected over the weekend and into next week.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2023/05/26/extended-period-flukey-s-swells-ahead-la
freeride76
Friday, 26 May 2023
The expected Tasman low forming in the wake of todays front really falls apart, forming instead a raggedy low pressure trough which moves away quickly to the NE overnight and into Sat.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2023/05/24/smaller-s-swell-spike-ahead-more-small
freeride76
Wednesday, 24 May 2023
As we come to the end of another active Autumn we’ve got a typical looking winter synoptic pattern with a dominant high drifting over NSW bringing settled conditions with a very active Southern Ocean storm track spawning a strong cold front which will impact the state on Thurs. The front and an upper low are expected to form a surface low Fri off the Central NSW Coast. Compared to Mon’s notes this low is now expected to be weaker and much faster moving bringing a smaller, faster up and down in S swell.
