A large (1025 hPa) high pressure system is currently drifting over Central NSW into the Tasman sea and this high pressure cell is expected to track SE, strengthen and become slow moving as it meanders near the South Island for most of this week. That creates a summer-style synoptic pattern, with SE/ESE Tradewinds through the sub-tropics and a N’ly flow through temperate NSW.
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/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2021/11/01/sloppy-short
freeride76
Monday, 1 November 2021
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2021/10/29/s-swell-incoming
freeride76
Friday, 29 October 2021
In addition to S swell there’s quite a strong high pressure surge of SE winds developing over the weekend. This surge of 20-30knot SE winds is likely to push wave heights up into the 3ft+ range, especially in SEQLD, through Sun.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2021/10/27/junky-windswell
freeride76
Wednesday, 27 October 2021
Eventually the low pressure system tracks into the Tasman, and with an associated front forms a low in the active window E of Tasmania overnight Fri/early Saturday. That will see some new S swell arriving on the weekend.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2021/10/25/more-tricky-wind
freeride76
Monday, 25 October 2021
The current synoptic pattern is a low pressure system E of Tasmania directing a fetch of SSW to S strong winds to low end gales adjacent to the NSW South Coast. This low then eases as it moves out into the Tasman sea later today.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2021/10/22/tricky-wind
freeride76
Friday, 22 October 2021
The current Tasman low has drifted out and become absorbed into a long, NE/SW angled trough in the South Pacific, which is currently organising and energising a broad but thin fetch of E’ly gales from the South Pacific down into the Tasman Sea adjacent to the North Island.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2021/10/20/small-clean-surf
freeride76
Wednesday, 20 October 2021
These swell trains are generated as a deep, angled trough through the area between the North Island and New Caledonia merges with the remnants of the Tasman low and focusses E to ENE winds in a broad area near the North Island during Friday.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2021/10/18/lots-workable
freeride76
Monday, 18 October 2021
From tomorrow we see a large, southwards located high and multiple troughs located in the Tasman sea and inland become the dominant synoptic features for the week. This is going to set-up some tricky, short-lived fetches as well as another week of multiple wind changes.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2021/10/15/summer-style
freeride76
Friday, 15 October 2021
Very dynamic, unstable week ahead that has a very La Nina looking signature to it. Primarily the strong, southwards located high and a very troughy pattern in the Tasman sea, that has good swell potential for the region.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2021/10/13/small-and-clean
freeride76
Wednesday, 13 October 2021
Next week looks even more La Nina influenced than this week, as a strong high moving at an unseasonably southwards latitude moves into the lower Tasman and directs a strong onshore flow from Wed onwards.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2021/10/11/short-range-swell
freeride76
Monday, 11 October 2021
A front is bringing another vigorous S’ly change through on Mon and a trough, just in advance of the front is now moving northwards, with a small low pressure system expected to form off the North Coast, near the QLD border overnight or early tomorrow.
