Around the world there are a handful of rivers that offer the chance to ride kilometre long, thigh-burning waves at particular times of the year. The waves are not a result of wind blowing over water, however, but a combination of a large tidal ranges and ideal river contours.
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Hurricane Sandy will create a fetch of northerly gales in the Great Lakes system
The world's most perfect wave won't exist in twenty years time.
But there is good news ahead. The much discussed Long Wave Trough (info here) is about to enter a strengthening phase in the Southern Ocean, and we're looking at two to three weeks of heavy swell activity for the southern states.
In theory the sand slug will break up incoming swell lines and provided a series of wedges and peaks on the downward side of the slug.
The Sydney buoy rose 9 metres in one hour
The opening week of winter is set to kick off with a bang in New South Wales, thanks to a deepening trough along the East Coast that's expected to develop an East Coast Low (ECL).
As such, we are now anticipating a large SW groundswell arriving next weekend, that could very well produce 8-10ft surf at Cloudbreak.
The ideal swell setup for Fiji usually originates from a passage of strong cold fronts extending from the Southern Ocean through the Tasman Sea. This often creates broad areas of south-westerly gales, which in turn generates long period south-westerly swells.