Eastern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Friday 24th November)

Best Days: Late Sunday, later next week

Recap

Tiny N/NE windswell yesterday, but our better increase in size this morning has come in on forecast with fun sets across north-east magnets with light offshore winds.

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This week and weekend (Nov 25 – Dec 1)

This morning's small NE windswell will fade back this afternoon and further tomorrow leaving tiny clean waves across the coast with a light morning offshore wind.

Our small increase in N/NE windswell through Sunday afternoon is still on track though the fetch generating this swell isn't expected to be as good as forecast on Wednesday.

It'll be more patchy and shorter-lived with building sets to 2-3ft expected later Sunday and we're due to see an offshore W'ly change before dark. Therefore a late surf is the go on Sunday.

Come Monday morning small fading 1-2ft sets are due along with an early S/SW wind as a weak surface trough moves in from the west. Winds will swing more onshore from the SE and freshen, though the strength of this system has also been downgraded, with no significant SE windswell due into Tuesday.

Instead we'll see NE winds redevelop down the coast from Wednesday as another surface trough moving in from the Bight squeezes a strengthening high in the Tasman Sea.

The NE fetch looks more robust than that seen this week and we'll see bigger amounts of NE windswell developing across our region, as well as persistent cold water from upwelling.

The surf is due to build more so later in the week, easing with a change next weekend but we'll confirm this on Monday. Have a great weekend!