Eastern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 21st November)

Best Days: Tuesday morning, Thursday morning, Friday, Sunday morning

Recap

Tiny waves Saturday morning ahead of an afternoon kick in new swell, easing back into yesterday morning.

Later in the day a new S'ly swell kicked and this has held into this morning with good sets at south magnets this morning.

The swell should of eased through this afternoon under N/NW sea breezes.

This week (Nov 22 - 25)

Today's S'ly swell should continue to ease back from 1-2ft across south swell magnets but some larger NE windswell to 2ft+ is due across the coast through the morning, easing into the afternoon.

This will be with offshore W'ly winds, and then a SE change, tending E'ly through the mid-late afternoon.

Wednesday isn't due to offer anything significant early, but a developing low to our north-east will project a fetch of strengthening S/SE winds off our coast kicking up an afternoon increase in S/SE windswell.

South facing beaches may see junky 3-4ft waves later in the day, easing back from 2-3ft Thursday morning with morning offshore winds.

Of more significance is a better aimed fetch of SE gales around the bottom flank of the low, generating a good E/SE swell for Friday, likely coming in at 2-3ft across open beaches.

Conditions should be clean with W'ly offshores linked to a strong approaching front.

This weekend onwards (Nov 26 onwards)

The front approaching through the end of the week will produce an initial zonal W/SW fetch, but as it pushes into the Tasman Sea, it is expected to project a better aligned fetch of broad SW winds through our southern swell window.

A moderate sized S'ly groundswell is due off this fetch for later Saturday and more so Sunday morning, coming in at 4-5ft across south swell magnets with W/NW winds, easing through the afternoon and further Monday.

We'll take a closer look at this Wednesday.