Eastern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Guy Dixon (issued Wednesday 25th May)

Best Days: Thursday

Recap: 

The swell build steadily from the 1-2ft range to a solid 3-4ft by this morning, with good quality sets breaking under a westerly component breeze. Plenty of good quality options were on offer, easing throughout this afternoon.

This week (Thursday 26th - Friday 27th):

Size will ease throughout Thursday in the wake of today’s swell, slowed only by southwesterly trailing fetches, tending southeasterly on the southeastern quadrants of the low as it moves over New Zealand. These fetches are not likely to provide any fresh size for south facing beaches, but instead maintain options in the 2ft range on Thursday and Friday.

Conditions should start off clean, with the potential of becoming slightly wind affected across south facing beaches as light breezes tend southerly on Thursday afternoon. Friday on the other hand should remain clean throughout the day under a light southwesterly breeze.

This weekend (Saturday 28th - Sunday 29th):

A lot of this energy will dry up into the weekend, with only hints of southerly swell filling into south swell magnets generated by weak southerly fetches using up from the Southern Ocean. Modest, elongated fetches running in a south-north orientation should just keep the surf from falling dead flat with options in the 1ft range on Saturday and Sunday.

Each morning should start out clean under a light southwesterly breeze, tending light northerly on Saturday afternoon and light south/southeasterly on Sunday afternoon.

Otherwise, poorly aligned and poorly structured fetches should push up through the Tasman Sea on Monday, maintaining small peaks across south facing beaches, ebbing and pulsing around the 1-2ft mark late on Tuesday and into Wednesday, smaller at less exposed spots.