Eastern Tasmania Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Friday 26th September)

Best Days: Early Monday for a possible small clean wave

Recap

Tiny to flat conditions continued across the coast yesterday and further into today.

This weekend and next week (Sep 27 – Oct 3)

Saturday will remain flat so focus your attention on the Grand Final. Moving into Sunday a late and acute increase in N'ly windswell is due with strong N'ly winds.

North-east facing beaches should reach 2-3ft by late in the day but conditions will be poor with the associated N'ly wind.

A strong change overnight will bring with it offshore W'ly winds Monday but the swell will drop rapidly with a fading and weak 1-2ft wave expected across north-east facing beaches early before disappearing during the day.

From here on there's nothing major on the cards until late in the week when we may see some small refracted S'ly groundswell energy pushing into south swell magnets.

This will be generated by a flurry of polar frontal activity passing under the state taking a more favourable path up towards New Zealand next Thursday. The models are still divergent on the timing off this activity but if it comes off we should see inconsistent 2-3ft sets across south facing beaches possibly Friday and Saturday under offshore NW winds, but we'll review this Monday. Have a great weekend and go Hawks!