Average outlook until next week
Eastern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 20th November)
Best Days: No great days, northern corners tomorrow morning with a sneaky E/NE groundswell
Recap
Not the best weekend of surf with small levels of NE windswell with less than ideal winds. This morning the swell was back to a tiny 0.5-1ft.
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This week and weekend (Nov 21 - 26)
As touched on last week, we're only expected to see small to tiny levels of NE windswell through this week, as a weak but persistent fetch of NE winds hang in our swell window.
No major strength is due off this fetch, with tiny 1ft+ waves due to persist across the coast from tomorrow through until Saturday, when a surface trough moves through, bringing a S/SE change.
A small and infrequent E/NE groundswell may be seen tomorrow though to 1-2ft, generated by a good fetch of E/SE gales off New Zealand's North Island Saturday. It wasn't ideally aimed at all and besides an early N/NW breeze, winds look onshore and from the N/NE.
The S/SE change into Saturday isn't expected to bring any swell with it, though moving into early next week, some better sized N/NE swell may be seen again on the coast. We'll have a closer look at this Wednesday though.
Comments
If I'm reading that wind chart right, those winds are pointed approximately away from New Plymouth toward the Goldy - so they can create waves on the NE Tassie coast as well? That's almost a perpendicular vector from the wind direction. Wow.
The report seems to say the little waves did arrive Wed AM, so they refracted 90 degrees and became a NE swell on landfall?
Do swells do this? Wow again.
Yeah, while the Gold Coast/North Coast will see the bulk of the energy, the swell spreads out like a fan, with smaller and smaller surf the further you head north/south. At some point it's not aimed in the swell window at all, but fetches off the NZ coast are usually good.