Eastern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Friday 30th December)

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Best Days: Saturday morning, Tuesday morning, Wednesday morning, Thursday morning

Recap

A fun north-east swell yesterday to 3ft or so, while today a new E/SE swell has kept good 2-3ft waves hitting the coast.

This weekend and next week (Dec 31 – Jan 6)

The fetch of E/SE winds generating today's E/SE swell has moved away from us to the south-east and with this we'll see the swell dropping back from 1-2ft tomorrow morning, mixed in with a small hint of NE swell.

Sunday looks tiny, but into early next week we've got a good source of SE swell.

A slow moving surface trough east towards New Zealand will direct a fetch of strong to gale-force E/SE winds through our south-eastern swell window up until Sunday afternoon.

From here the fetch will weaken but linger off the South Island Monday before swinging away from our swell window Tuesday.

What we should see is a good pulse of SE groundswell building later Monday (a weak S'ly windswell will already be in the water), peaking Tuesday morning to a good 3-4ft across exposed beaches.

Winds are due to be S/SW early Tuesday, swinging SE through the day.

A slow easing trend is then expected Wednesday and further into the end of the week due to the lingering nature of the fetch.

Early each morning winds are looking favourable ahead of sea breezes.

We'll have another look at this Monday. Have a great weekend and Happy New Year!