Here in NZ we often sit in amazement of the hefty E swells that hit the Oz east coast despite a relatively small stretch of Tasman. We've got thousands of miles of ocean out east and we get relatively fuck all east swell. Most of what we do get seems to be close generated.

Once there's no land mass to block them those systems just piss off at pace to the east. You guys should be paying us for your waves, and thank goodness we're not just a little bit higher to block off those long fetches across the top.

But yes, by all means let's take out Tasmania and maybe Farewell Spit (useless piece of sand)

What about reversing the jet streams and making our weather move from east to west...surely cheaper and easier than blowing up NZ or Tas?

yeah, the ability of the Tasman sea to quickly whip up large swells is amazing to me too.

see the last Tasman low for exhibit A.

Yendor wrote:

Here in NZ we often sit in amazement of the hefty E swells that hit the Oz east coast despite a relatively small stretch of Tasman. We've got thousands of miles of ocean out east and we get relatively fuck all east swell. Most of what we do get seems to be close generated.

Once there's no land mass to block them those systems just piss off at pace to the east. You guys should be paying us for your waves, and thank goodness we're not just a little bit higher to block off those long fetches across the top.

But yes, by all means let's take out Tasmania and maybe Farewell Spit (useless piece of sand)

The angle of NZ would seem to be enough for fair bit of south / Southwest swell to make it up the east coast but I have heard that is not the case. Is that true?

As you point out fast moving systems often don't produce.

frog wrote:

The angle of NZ would seem to be enough for fair bit of south / Southwest swell to make it up the east coast but I have heard that is not the case. Is that true?

As you point out fast moving systems often don't produce.

Sorry Frog, missed this ages ago. Yes we do get tons of Sth and SW swell up the east coast of NZ. Probably our primary source of swell. The longer the period the more wrap we can get from the SW and even get swells from fetch under the bottom of the Sth Island