Eastern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 17th October)

Best Days: Friday mid-morning onwards

Recap

No surf Saturday and a tiny hint of NE windswell Sunday morning, building a little into the afternoon. Today the swell was all but gone with offshore winds.

This week and weekend (Oct 18 - 23)

The coming few days are due to be void of any major surf, with a small NE swell showing on the charts tomorrow emanating from a less than favourable but broad fetch of N/NW gales off the East Coast today.

This isn't aimed well and not overly strong, so I'm only expecting 1ft sets max tomorrow, fading into Wednesday.

Of greater importance is a much better fetch of strong to gale-force N'ly winds developing down our coast from Thursday evening into Friday morning.

We should see 3-4ft waves across north-east facing beaches Friday morning with a poor N'ly wind, swinging offshore from the W/NW mid-late morning, creating great conditions as the swell eases.

Following this a S'ly change and developing low in the Tasman Sea should kick up some building S'ly windswell Saturday but with average S'ly winds.

The low may actually stall and dip more south into our swell window on Sunday, generating some good SE swell for Sunday/early next week, but we'll have another look at this Wednesday.

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