Both these fetches are going to supply fun sized mid period swells going into the weekend with a front and low expected in the Tasman Sea over the weekend.
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/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2022/03/16/slow-easing-the
freeride76
Wednesday, 16 March 2022
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2022/03/14/fun-waves-ahead
freeride76
Monday, 14 March 2022
A stronger high at at even more Southerly latitude is South-west of Tasmania and tracking into the lower Tasman to replace the current high cell. This will reinforce the SE’ly fetch and maintain a weak onshore flow on the coast.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2022/03/11/combination
freeride76
Friday, 11 March 2022
The next high pressure system moves into the lower Tasman Mon, at a very southerly latitude, even by La Niña standards.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2022/03/09/fun-combination
freeride76
Wednesday, 9 March 2022
This fetch is producing a fast rising S swell through today in Southern NSW, with the bulk of the swell generation for our f/cast region occurring once the fetch moves out of swell shadow of the Hunter curve.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2022/03/07/another-very
freeride76
Monday, 7 March 2022
This fetch is enhanced by a pressure gradient squeeze with another strong high currently moving East in the Bight. Meanwhile, out in the South Pacific a sub-tropical low is deepening well E of the North Island with a well aimed fetch expected to be aimed at the sub-tropics generating a long range E’ly groundswell for the weekend.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2022/03/04/heaps-more-swell
freeride76
Friday, 4 March 2022
That marks the emergence of another major system, as the remnants of the trough/low get re-energised by another upper disturbance being pushed Eastwards by a high in the bight.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2022/02/28/stacks-e-swell
freeride76
Monday, 28 February 2022
This is maintaining a deep E’ly flow, with coastal troughs and a surface low off the NSW North Coast, now moving South.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2022/02/25/la-niñ-goes-out
freeride76
Friday, 25 February 2022
The basic building blocks of the pattern are a strong high pressure belt cradling multiple low pressure systems in the Coral Sea and South Pacific- essentially creating a huge, multi-centred low pressure gyre through a vast area of ocean to our east.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2022/02/23/days-ely-swell
freeride76
Wednesday, 23 February 2022
This will be generated by the increasing winds in the deep E’ly wind field retrograding W towards the coast as a large area of tropical low pressure off the QLD coast starts to deepen and move S.
/reports/forecaster-notes/south-east-queensland-northern-new-south-wales/2022/02/21/lots-fun
freeride76
Monday, 21 February 2022
Trade flows across the South Coral and Northern Tasman Sea won’t be particularly strong this week but the broad scale coverage of winds and an uptick in wind strengths in more proximate areas of the fetch Tues/Wed will be enough to see a modest building trend into Thurs and Fri, albeit a bit underwhelming compared to model guidance on Fri.
