Eastern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 9th January)

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Best Days: Friday afternoon, Monday south swell magnets

Recap

Tiny Saturday, but Sunday saw some fun NE windswell with decent winds. This morning the NE swell was back to 1-2ft but nice and clean.

This week (Jan 10 - 13)

No major NE swell is expected tomorrow, with tiny leftovers, and through the rest of this week there's nothing major due at all.

A very intense mid-latitude low passing under the south coast Wednesday will be too zonal to generate any major size, while a weaker trailing fetch of W/SW winds may generate 1-1.5ft of south swell at magnets later Thursday and early Friday.

Besides this Friday should reveal a rapid increase in N/NE swell as a strong fetch of N/NE winds develop down our coast through the morning.

A kick to 2ft+ is due through the late morning/early afternoon as winds swing offshore, tiny into Saturday.

This weekend onwards (Jan 14 onwards)

Into the weekend a much stronger cold outbreak is due to move across us, with a better aligned and stronger fetch of SW gales projecting past the south-east corner of the state.

This should generate a surfable pulse of S'ly swell, firstly refracting hard Sunday and coming in at 3ft across magnets ahead of a better S'ly pulse Monday morning more to 3-4ft. This will be with offshore NW winds, but we'll have to have another look at this on Wednesday.