Eastern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 5th December)

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Best Days: Thursday early afternoon, Saturday south swell magnets

Recap

A small and inconsistent SE swell to 1-2ft on Saturday morning, hanging in early Sunday before fading through the day.

Today a small fun NE windswell was easing across the coast with offshore winds ahead of a S/SE change.

This week and weekend (Dec 6 - 11)

There's no major surf due until Thursday when a burst of strong N/NE winds develop down the southern NSW coast through our northern swell window before shifting more NW into the afternoon and away from us.

We should see a small increase in N/NE windswell through Thursday, tiny early, but reaching 2ft+ at north facing beaches during the day/early afternoon and then easing from late with the offshore change.

Of greater importance is a vigorous cold front that's expected to move in behind the change, directing a great fetch of strong to gale-force S/SW winds from below us, up past our coast through Friday.

The front and fetch will be slow moving, which will help generate a moderate sized S'ly swell event, building Friday afternoon to 3ft+ across south facing beaches later in the day and easing from 3-4ft Saturday morning.

Winds will be average as the swell builds Friday and from the south, but Saturday should see favourable offshore W/SW tending variable winds.

After this we may see a secondary small S'ly swell early next week, but more on this Wednesday.