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Incoming: Long-Interval SW Bombs To Light Up Vicco This Weekend The storm chain that blew up Indonesia is ready to shed some light on Bells. Surfline/Lotus swell chart for 4am this coming Saturday, as the fingers of the pulse reach into Bass Strait. Ben Macartney Large, long-period SW groundswell follows, arriving across Victoria this weekend. Favourable winds open up two full days of excellent conditions. If you could pick one place to be in our fair land this weekend, Victoria’s Surf Coast ...

Incoming: Winter’s About To Strike A Blow Across SE Australia If you live along the central NSW coast, get your warmest wetsuit. Lotus swell chart for Australian waters on Wednesday morning. Ben Macartney Large spike in short-period south swell and 30-35 knot SSW winds follow on Wednesday Conditions rapidly settle and clean up as a high pressure system builds in on Thursday. Suddenly, it’s looking more like winter. A vigorous frontal system sweeping across Tasmania and Bass Strait leads in ...

Incoming: Long-Range South Pulses All Week For NSW Nothing huge, but definitely something if you’re “working from home”. That Southern Ocean swell blob near NZ is sending us messages on Thursday. Image: Lotus/Surfline. Ben Macartney Powerful winds near S NZ to push a follow-up on Thursday Fun tradewind swell for Qld from Wednesday If you’re part of greater Sydney’s current COVID lockdown, there’s one consolation — surf, and plenty of it. The NSW coast is already under the influenc...

Lookback: Six Epic Rides From A Week To Remember Some rides to help us recall how 2021 moved from autumn to winter. Nick Carroll Link copied to clipboard Barrels, barrels, barrels. So many barrels. Enough to wear anyone out. Enough to tire us out just watching cam rewinds. That was the story of how the seasons changed along the eastern seaboard this year. Courtesy of Jesse Little and Spencer Frost, here’s some gems to remember it by. Nick Vasicek and Dion Atkinson, Kirra. Nick was one of the ...

Wind and swell whip NSW, while the Goldie stays clean but chunky

Incoming: Australia Surrounded By Swell! Where won’t be pumping? But it’s NSW’s turn for a real late May thrashing. Ben Macartney Deep mid-latitude low consolidates and stalls off NZ on Friday and Saturday. Heavy S/SSE swell subsequently hammers the NSW coast this weekend. The bigger the surf gets, the harder it can be to quantify. You can call it XL or XXL. You can use body height to scale from double overhead to quadruple and beyond. And then there’s projected surf height, described ...

Incoming: Clean Conditions And Mid-Size Magic On The Way For Vicco Looks like a splendid weekend on the way. Lotus long period swell forecast chart for Saturday, showing the days pulse reaching well into Bass Strait. Ben Macartney Link copied to clipboard Overlapping SW and WSW swells open up a variety of clean surfing options. Continued run of good to great conditions taking shape on the long-range outlook.   A favourable autumn pattern brings a string of good to great days of surf to Victori...

Incoming: Winter-Style South Swells Are On NSWs Doorstep Southern Tasman gales set up plenty of surf from Sunday. Ben Macartney Link copied to clipboard New pulse of S groundswell rebuilds early next week, likely peaking Tuesday Days of S/SSE groundswell settle beneath light winds mid-late next week Just as the past fortnight’s run of easterly swell ends, our south swell window reactivates. A vigorous frontal system moving out across the southern Tasman Sea on Saturday morning triggers a ste...