The fetch of deep E to E/NE winds in the Coral and Northern Tasman Sea is contracting northwards around a surface low off the CQ/Fraser coast, and expected to fizzle out over the weekend. At present gales are retrograding towards the QLD, generating large swells.
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/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2022/05/13/large-storm-surf
freeride76
Friday, 13 May 2022
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2022/05/11/large-unruly-surf
freeride76
Wednesday, 11 May 2022
A long interior trough and developing trough/low off the North QLD coast are tightening the pressure gradient along most of the ridge, bringing fresh onshore winds and a deep E’ly pattern to the majority of Tasman Sea and Central/Southern Coral Sea.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2022/05/09/xl-stormsurf
freeride76
Monday, 9 May 2022
Further north an interior upper trough and potential coastal trough/surface low will combine to drive an intense E/NE to NE wind flow through the Coral and Northern Tasman Sea, generating a large stormsurf by Fri.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2022/05/06/fun-waves-over
freeride76
Friday, 6 May 2022
GFS has the more bullish outlook, with a trough or potential surface low forming off the Fraser Coast and tracking south through Fri13th- energising a long E to NE fetch through the Central Tasman to Coral Sea. In effect, it’s a slightly less energised version of the June 2016 Black Nor-Easter set-up.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2022/05/04/plenty-waves
thermalben
Wednesday, 4 May 2022
We’ve got more of the same for the next few days. Next week though...
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2022/05/02/great-autumn-week
freeride76
Monday, 2 May 2022
High pressure is sitting over the interior of Central NSW, leading to SE wind conditions, with a trade flow in the South Pacific supplying a steady drumbeat of fun, mid-sized E’ly swell.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2022/04/29/sunday-monday
thermalben
Friday, 29 April 2022
The broad trade pattern supplying the weekend’s swell source will become enhanced over the coming days as a tropical low between New Caledonia and Fiji this weekend squeezes the synoptic flow.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2022/04/27/couple-small-days
freeride76
Wednesday, 27 April 2022
A large 1029 hPa high pressure system is sitting smack bang in the middle of the Southern Tasman Sea in a deepening phase, with a series of tropical troughs in the Northern Coral Sea beginning to expand Tradewinds through the tropics.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2022/04/26/some-small-clean
freeride76
Tuesday, 26 April 2022
Plenty of E swell ahead next week as Tradewinds and a sub-tropical low drifts south through the South Pacific slot.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2022/04/22/chunky-blend
freeride76
Friday, 22 April 2022
The chief factor will be wind and there’ll be plenty of it from the SE, as a dominant high moving across Tasmania builds a very firm ridge along the sub-tropical and tropical coasts of NSW and QLD.
