Eastern Tasmania Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Wednesday 16th September)

Best Days: Thursday south swell magnets through morning, Tuesday onwards next week for some small E'ly swell

Recap

Tiny mix of swells yesterday, with a small pulse of S'ly windswell this morning to 1-2ft at open beaches and 2-3ft across south swell magnets. Winds weren’t the best for south facing beaches though.

This week and weekend (Sep 17 - 20)

Our fun pulse of S'ly groundswell due tomorrow is still on track, with it performing well across Victoria and the South Arm today. A late increase may have been seen today, with a peak tomorrow morning to 2-3ft across south swell magnets, easing through the day.

Winds are looking great tomorrow, with a morning W'ly breeze due to tend more W/SW through the later afternoon.

Friday will then be smaller and average with a dawn W'ly due to tend S'ly during the morning and onshore into the afternoon.

Come the weekend the surf is due to be tiny and winds from the northern quadrant, possibly kicking up a small N/NE windswell later Sunday and more so Monday to 1-2ft across north-east swell magnets.

Next week onwards (Sep 21 onwards)

Of greater importance is a fetch of strong to gale-force E/SE winds developing out of New Zealand's Cook Strait during the weekend and early next week.

This is one of my favourite swell generating areas for Sydney as it's aimed smack bang towards the region, but it's a little off a direct impact for our coast.

In any case we should see this fetch develop later Saturday and more so Sunday, producing an inconsistent pulse of E'ly groundswell for Tuesday to 2-3ft across open beaches.

The fetch will remain aimed through our swell window Monday before weakening Tuesday and this should keep inconsistent levels of E'ly groundswell to 2ft+ hitting open beaches through most of the week.

At the same time though we may see a more localised fetch of SE winds establishing off our coast, but we'll review this again on Friday.