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Surface Currents and Temperature

Up to date ocean information around Australia.

OceanCurrent News

Marine Heatwave off WA

Gabriela S Pilo & David Griffin

30 January, 2025

The ocean off Western Australia is extremely hot right now (Figure 1). The monthly sea surface temperature (SST) off Australia’s northwest was up to 2.5°C above the long-term mean over the past few...

Sydney to Hobart outlook

David Griffin

20 December, 2024

It is an upside-down year, with unusually strong currents off Tasmania and unusually weak currents off NSW. This is because the East Australian Current is about 250km off Sydney, skirting around a cold-core...

Rogue waves battering Southern Australia

Salman Khan, Marites Canto, and Cagil Kirezci

17 September, 2024

The couple of weeks of transition from Aug to Sep 2024 have seen relentless westerlies in Southern Australia causing widespread disruption and damage in Tasmania and Victoria.    They have also produced...