Some modest frontal activity pushes through late in the week with a developing N’ly flow on Sun set to provide some NE windswell. Looks like more of the same next week with a fluctuating trough remaining semi-stalled along the NSW coast bringing mostly N'ly winds and small, weak swells.
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/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2024/10/30/lots-nlies-and
freeride76
Wednesday, 30 October 2024
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2024/10/28/lacklustre-spring
freeride76
Monday, 28 October 2024
High pressure drifts into the Bight but weakens as the week progresses with a weak high cell budding off and moving NE into the Tasman. The result is a weak, troughy pattern in the Tasman and inland- unstable but not very surfy.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2024/10/25/s-swells-in-the
freeride76
Friday, 25 October 2024
A complex but disjointed low has formed in the Tasman with diffuse centres off the North Coast and Tasmania/Gippsland coast. We’ll see various S swells generated by proximate and distal fetches from this system over the weekend and into next week.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2024/10/23/troughiness-in
freeride76
Wednesday, 23 October 2024
That will see a S wind change and some, windy but sizey S swells through the end of the week into the weekend. Lingering troughiness in the Tasman may see yet another low form next week- which would be the 4th successive surface low to form in October.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2024/10/21/short-the-s-and
freeride76
Monday, 21 October 2024
The current low located near Lord Howe Island dissipates through today with easing winds along the Eastern Seaboard as a result. Weak pressure gradients then occupy the Tasman through the mid week, offering up good conditions as a long range E swell makes landfall.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2024/10/18/ordinary-start
freeride76
Friday, 18 October 2024
A low is expected to move E of Tasmania o/night and form a broad low pressure trough in the Tasman driving N-NW’ly then S’ly winds up the coast before moving NE as a surface low over the weekend. That will be the second surface low in succession to form in the Tasman and we may yet see a third develop later next week.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2024/10/16/small-blend
freeride76
Wednesday, 16 October 2024
In the tropics a trough deepening between Vanuatu and Fiji forms a broad surface low which tracks southwards through the wide open South Pacific slot between the North Island and tropical island chains, generating some tasty E’ly swell next week.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2024/10/14/mix-swells-week
freeride76
Monday, 14 October 2024
Surf now looks fun without being spectacular. A polar low passing to the south is sending long period S swells up the pipe. A modest but broad trade fetch in the Coral Sea is supplying some small E’ly tradeswell.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2024/10/11/few-small-swells
freeride76
Friday, 11 October 2024
We have a broad front passing into the Tasman and a northwards moving trough, with a high pressure ridge filling in behind those short range features. The front will supply workable levels of S swell Sun but winds will be a problem with a a mod/fresh S’ly flow, tending SE’ly- E’ly during the day.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2024/10/09/generally-low
freeride76
Wednesday, 9 October 2024
The current S swell will ease through tomorrow with a pair of cold fronts passing into the Tasman Thurs/Fri ahead of another trough and high pressure ridge. In short, we’ll see pulses of S swell but favourable winds will be short-lived.
