One reason it was so warm was because the winter storms – and the large swells that accompany them – never really materialised, tracking too far south to make their way up the east coast, where high pressure systems and fine weather dominated.
“Form border to border in New South Wales, and up on the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast too, there is a sand surplus.”
You might think that more sand is not necessarily a bad thing, but that is unfortunately not the case for surfers.
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“We have so much sand at the moment it’s causing terrible waves, and this isn’t something people have dealt with before,” Nettle explains.
The quick version is that too much sand hampers the formation of surfable waves, and after three years of beaches being severely eroded during La Niña storms, this is a problem no one expected to face.
If there is any, it’s that there’ll be a lot more towel space on packed city beaches on those super busy summer Saturdays and Sundays.