All the action is in the Southern states right now, with a deep dual-centred low pressure gyre backed up by a strong high moving in from the Indian Ocean generating a powerful fetch which is just behind Tasmania with respect to the S swell window.
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/reports/forecaster-notes/eastern-tasmania/2022/10/31/strong-ne-windswell-fades-out-tomorrow-some-fun
freeride76
Monday, 31 October 2022
/reports/forecaster-notes/eastern-tasmania/2022/10/28/winter-style-conditions-ahead-fresh-offshores
freeride76
Friday, 28 October 2022
Into next week and a quick spike in NE windswell is expected Mon AM into Tues AM as another mid-latitude low approaches from the Bight and tightens the pressure gradient with the high in the Tasman.
/reports/forecaster-notes/eastern-tasmania/2022/10/26/one-pumping-day-offshore-winds-ahead-then-rapid
freeride76
Wednesday, 26 October 2022
Our Coral Sea low is now sitting just NE of Tasmania where it has merged with an exiting interior low to form a large, slow moving low-pressure gyre. Troughs are still snaking across Australia with a long trough line extending from the low pressure gyre through inland NSW up towards QLD and then into the Northern Territory, expected to move offshore through today. More embedded troughs and fronts approach the Island during the rest of this week, driving an unstable but basically NW’ly to W’ly biased wind flow across the f/cast region through the end of the week with easing swells.
/reports/forecaster-notes/eastern-tasmania/2022/10/24/sizeable-swells-low-drifted-down-the-coral-sea
freeride76
Monday, 24 October 2022
A sub-tropical low which threatened SEQLD and NENSW over the weekend after it formed off the Capricorn coast is now steaming southwards at a fair clip, sliding along a high pressure ridge from a large (1035 hPa) high under Tasmania and dragging a strong fetch with it into the East Tas swell window.
/reports/forecaster-notes/eastern-tasmania/2022/10/21/heaps-swell-energy-incoming-onshore-winds
freeride76
Friday, 21 October 2022
Dynamic weekend f/cast ahead as a strong NE fetch builds a chunky windswell and a trough then brings an extended period of elevated wave heights from the SE to E.
/reports/forecaster-notes/eastern-tasmania/2022/10/19/lots-size-expected-the-ne-and-e-under-dynamic
freeride76
Wednesday, 19 October 2022
The onshore flow is enhanced into a deeper tradewind flow up in the Coral Sea, which gets a boost from a trough of low pressure expected to form off the Central QLD Coast this weekend before drifting south as a surface low, bringing sizey swell from the East and dynamic weather. The trough of low-pressure from inland Victoria is expected to drift SE of Tasmania over the weekend with plenty of swell expected.
/reports/forecaster-notes/eastern-tasmania/2022/10/17/small-mixed-bag-week-another-round-chunky-ne
freeride76
Monday, 17 October 2022
The end of the week will see another round of NE windswell develop, likely persisting over the weekend and into next week and blending with a developing Tradewind swell which is likely to send some small surf as far south as Tasmania.
/reports/forecaster-notes/eastern-tasmania/2022/10/14/clean-leftover-ne-swell-over-the-weekend
freeride76
Friday, 14 October 2022
No change to the weekend f/cast. Fronts passing over the state and a dissipating complex low see offshore winds through Sat. We’ll see easing levels of NE swell now that the fetch has been shunted out of the swell window, along with some long range E/NE swell from the South Pacific.
/reports/forecaster-notes/eastern-tasmania/2022/10/12/xl-ne-windswell-now-building-offshore-winds-fri
freeride76
Wednesday, 12 October 2022
Closer to home a strong high between Tasmania and the South Island is being squeezed by an approaching trough series, front and cut-off low, which is seeing N to NE gales develop on the Tasmanian East Coast swell window. Large surf with onshore/sideshore gales develops Fri before a change brings offshore winds Fri into Sat.
/reports/forecaster-notes/eastern-tasmania/2022/10/10/another-round-strong-and-sizey-ne-swell-later
freeride76
Monday, 10 October 2022
Plenty of E to NE swell ahead this week courtesy of persistent, long, broad fetch of Tradewinds in the South Pacific slot, which has had windspeeds boosted on the northern flank by a tropical depression drifting south from Fijian longitudes. The weekend’s low pressure has scooted away quickly with high pressure now moving into the Tasman. This high will move into the Tasman and an approaching complex trough and cut-off low will tighten the pressure gradient through the week, leading to another round of strong and sizey NE swell.
