Eastern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 15th August)

Best Days: North half of the coast Thursday morning, everywhere from mid-morning Friday

Recap

No swell or surf over the weekend, with the trend continuing today.

This week and weekend (Aug 16 - 21)

The surf will remain tiny to flat into tomorrow, but Wednesday, a trough will move across us bringing an onshore S/SE change and building S/SE windswell later in the day. The trough will stall to our east, directing strong E/SE winds towards us producing a small peaky E/SE swell for Thursday, easing back Friday.

On Wednesday south facing beaches should build to 2-3ft by dark, with Thursday seeing 2-3ft surf, easing back from a similar size Friday morning.

Winds Thursday will vary, with onshore NE winds around the southern half of the coast, more variable to the north but increasing from the N/NE into the afternoon. Friday should improve as the day progresses with a dawn N'ly, shifting W/NW mid-morning.

Come the weekend tiny easing surf is due, and we look ahead into next week, which looks to become quite dynamic.

A surface trough drifting south-east off the NSW coast is expected to stall and deepen south-east of us early next week, generating some moderate to possibly large SE swell. This looks to be along with onshore winds as the low pushes back north and ridges across us, but we'll have a closer look at this Wednesday.