A classic Summer blocking pattern is now setting up, with a slow moving high drifting well south of Victoria and a series of troughs interacting with a strong high pressure ridge which has reached Central NSW and is now building into more sub-tropical regions.
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freeride76
Wednesday, 19 January 2022
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2022/01/17/ely-groundswell-replaced-plenty-short
freeride76
Monday, 17 January 2022
A trough brings a S’ly change tomorrow , with another strong high tracking south of the Bight poised to be the main weather feature this week.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2022/01/14/strong-pulses-ex-tc-cody-the-radar-some
freeride76
Friday, 14 January 2022
TC Cody is the main game in town and the system has now undergone extra-tropical transition and is classified as a storm force sub-tropical low.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2022/01/12/pulsey-e-swell-tc-cody-extends-the
freeride76
Wednesday, 12 January 2022
Current ASCAT (satellite windspeed) passes show a healthy fetch of E’ly winds flanking a tropical low as drifts south of the area between Fiji and New Caledonia towards the North Island.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2022/01/10/extended-run-e-swell-ahead-some-windows
freeride76
Monday, 10 January 2022
Our current synoptic pattern is typical of the season and the La Nina end of the ENSO cycle. High pressure straddles New Zealand and a tropical low now is drifting south from between Fiji and Vanuatu towards the North Island.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2022/01/07/more-swell-the-ene-incoming-next-week
freeride76
Friday, 7 January 2022
By Thurs the wave climate will come under the influence once more of the tropics, with a broad Tradewinds band being accelerated by a tropical low drifting South from area between Fiji and Vanuatu.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2022/01/05/surf-slowly-easing-the-ene-onshore-winds
freeride76
Wednesday, 5 January 2022
A strong high is now slipping in underneath Tasmania and the combination of the decaying ex cyclone, developing high pressure ridge and an interior trough is creating a long, broad fetch E/NE winds extending from New Caledonia down into the Central Tasman Sea.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2022/01/03/lots-swell-and-wind-the-ene-ne-week
freeride76
Monday, 3 January 2022
Swell from ex TC Seth, which transitioned into a gale force sub-tropical low Sun is the major synoptic feature this week, responsible for both swell production and directing gradient winds as it slowly weakens and meanders close to the NENSW/SEQLD coast for the next few days.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2021/12/31/lots-surf-the-ene-e-next-week-tropical
freeride76
Friday, 31 December 2021
While there is still a bit of model variance the broad scale pattern is clear enough to make a high confidence call on Mon seeing a significant pulse of E/NE groundswell across the region.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2021/12/29/new-year-brings-strong-swell-tropical
freeride76
Wednesday, 29 December 2021
Surf prospects from this low are now upgraded to excellent with major weather models expecting the system to track parallel to the East Coast on a Southerly path, possibly reforming as a significant extra-tropical storm in the lower Tasman Sea next week.
