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 drifting south from between Fiji and Vanuatu.
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/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2022/01/10/extended-ely
freeride76
Monday, 10 January 2022
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2022/01/07/another-extended
freeride76
Friday, 7 January 2022
By Tues the wave climate will come more under the direct influence 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/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2022/01/05/lots-more-ely
freeride76
Wednesday, 5 January 2022
The sub-tropical high pressure belt also extends Eastwards of New Zealand and the cradling effect of this belt along the low pressure zone is expected to create a long fetch of enhanced Tradewinds during next week.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2022/01/03/slow-easing
freeride76
Monday, 3 January 2022
More action in the tropics next week. Later this week another tropical low is expected to form in the South Pacific- possibly between Fiji and Vanuatu.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2021/12/31/pumping-surf-the
freeride76
Friday, 31 December 2021
A tropical hybrid low is now tracking SE down the Coral Sea, roughly parallel to the QLD coast. This will bring plenty of solid swell to the f/cast region over the short term
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2021/12/29/pumping-surf
freeride76
Wednesday, 29 December 2021
Surf prospects from this low are now confirmed as excellent with major weather models expecting the system to track parallel to the East Coast, spraying the region with swell as it does so and, possibly reforming as a significant extra-tropical storm in the lower Tasman Sea next week.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2021/12/27/extended-period
freeride76
Monday, 27 December 2021
In the tropics the Monsoon trough is now active, with good odds of cylogenesis occurring before the New Year and plenty of surf ahead.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2021/12/24/tropics-slowly
freeride76
Friday, 24 December 2021
Models have invested in the start of the Northern Australian Monsoon (NAM) as the year ends, suggesting a tropical low tracking across the Northern Territory into the Gulf of Carpenteria and then across Cape York Peninsula into the Coral Sea towards the end of next week.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2021/12/22/small-weak-surf
freeride76
Wednesday, 22 December 2021
Very weak pressure gradients everywhere as we continue to meander through this troughy, doldrums pattern. Plenty of action ahead next week.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2021/12/20/small-bits-and
freeride76
Monday, 20 December 2021
Lots of wind changes and flukey swells ahead this week as a Spring looking pattern unfolds in the week leading up to Xmas.
