Cape Sorrell News Today

There’s been plenty of talk in recent days about the powerful front and trough that briefly brought winter back to the southeast. Anyone brave enough to venture towards the coast would have also seen the huge waves being driven into the coast in a strong southwesterly airflow behind the front.  Victoria’s southwest coast and South Australia’s southeast coast have been battered by monstrous waves from this system, as a huge area of gale force winds allowed swells to build over several hun...

On May 17/18, cold weather Bells and Winki finally showed up.

The same swell that triggered Bells gave Shipstern an opening day or three.

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The Breaker Yep, finally pumping. Photo: Steve Arklay Sean Doherty Link copied to clipboard Mid-last week, Surfline forecaster Katie Jackson identified an explosive weather phenomenon — extra-tropical moisture merging with a cold Antarctic low under Madagascar, and moving east armed with super-low central pressure and intensifying winds.  The resulting swell struck all Australia’s SW-facing coastlines, first southern WA, then rapidly hammering everywhere else with scary power levels. But i...