Eastern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Friday 8th September)

Best Days: Thursday morning, Sunday and Monday

Recap

Great surf over the weekend with a large new S'ly groundswell Saturday with offshore winds, still pumping out of the S/SE Sunday as it slowly eased.

Today there wasn't much left at all with small 1-2ft leftovers.

This week and weekend (Sep 12 - 17)

Looking at the week ahead, and unfortunately there's nothing significant at all due this week, with the swell from the weekend expected to keep fading back to nothing tomorrow.

A zonal storm track will see any swell from the Southern Ocean being too west until this weekend.

There is one sneaky SE swell possible for Thursday morning, generated by a burst of SE gales below New Zealand during the final stages of the system that produced the weekend's swell. Only 2ft sets are due across magnets, fading through the day.

Into the weekend a mid-latitude trough/front is forecast to move across us and strengthen significantly Saturday as it forms into a deep low pressure system.

The models are still shifting around regarding this system but we should see a fetch of S/SW gales moving up past us through Saturday, bringing a building S'ly swell through the day, peaking late and easing into Sunday and Monday as the low continues east.

Winds will be poor Saturday and out of the SW-S/SW but Sunday should see a return to offshores. We'll have to have a closer look at this Wednesday though.