N’ly winds do perk up off the South Coast and into Bass Strait later Sun, which should see NE windswell lift into the 3ft range later Sun.
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The weekend isn’t looking great with a small mixed bag of 1-2ft surf both days, lifting a notch Sun a’noon as NE wind swell builds in under freshening N’ly winds.
There's a good mix of easterly swells on the way for the coast, cleanest as it peaks and fun while it eases.
While this swell is aimed at NSW, the fetch continues to dip south as it weakens, eventually reaching the Eastern Tas swell window later Mon.
A mix of swells over the coming days but mainly easing from the east-northeast and pulsing from the south.
There's plenty of swell on the cards but you'll have to work the local winds.
This is a particularly broad fetch and while there its still some model variance on windspeed in the fetch its on track to supply some good quality E/NE swell for the East Coast of Tasmania.
First from the western flank of the high as the tightened pressure gradient sees N’ly winds freshening off the Gippsland coast and aimed well at NE Tas.
New high pressure slips into the Tasman Thursday and immediately has the pressure gradient on the western flank tightened by an interior trough system. That sees a fast developing N to NE fetch off the Far South Coast and Gippsland build NE windswell off the NE Coast of Tasmania during Thurs.
The blocking pattern remains in place for most of next week. First, the initial high maintains position just East of Tasmania with weak pressure gradients and only light N to NE winds in the swell window- not enough to generate any more than a foot or so of weak windswell.