Eastern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 4th December)

Best Days: Tuesday, Wednesday protected spots, Thursday, Friday morning

Recap

Building stormy swell through Saturday, becoming larger and stronger through Sunday as a very intense low formed off our coast. Protected spots were pumping though, similar into this morning as the swell started to ease.

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This weekend and next week (Dec 5 - 10)

The strong and intense low responsible for our current large S/SE swell is now weakening and moving east. With this we'll see winds improving and the S/SE swell easing, dropping back from 4-5ft across south magnets, smaller and 2ft to occasional 3ft.

Winds tomorrow morning should be SW for a period, tending SE through the day, while Wednesday a strong low drifting south from the Tasman Sea will bring strengthening S/SE tending S/SW winds.

As this low drifts south we'll see a great fetch of strong to gale-force NE winds aimed towards us, resulting in a moderate sized NE swell building later in the day, peaking Thursday morning.

Late in the day Wednesday we should see sets hitting 3ft or so later in the day, with 4-5ft sets Thursday morning, easing steadily through the day, further into Friday.

Conditions on Thursday will be excellent as the low continues to dip south, bringing offshore W/NW winds, ahead of weak sea breezes.

Friday will be clean again, but a surface trough moving in from the west will bring a S'ly change and small increase in S'ly windswell.

This windswell will fade into the weekend, with only a small pulse of distant groundswell for Sunday.

Longer term there's nothing too significant on the cards, so make the most of this week!