Eastern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 11th December)

Best Days: Tuesday south magnets, Thursday morning open beaches

Recap

Small clean and peaky 2ft waves for Saturday morning across the coast, back to a tiny 1-1.5ft on Sunday. Today the surf was smaller again.

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This week and weekend (Dec 12 - 17)

The S'ly swell for tomorrow has unfortunately been downgraded a little due to the trailing fetch of winds on the backside of a front that moved under Tassie not really being as strong or as favourably aligned as forecast on Friday.

We're now only expected to see sets reaching 2ft to maybe 3ft across south swell magnets through tomorrow.

The swell will ease back from 1-2ft at south magnets Wednesday, tiny into Thursday.

Winds will be good for northern corners with a NW tending NE breeze tomorrow, similar but with stronger N/NE sea breezes Wednesday.

This strengthening N/NE wind will be linked to a building N/NE fetch down the coast as an approaching front squeezes a high in the Tasman Sea, but the swell potential looks limitied.

The fetch will move away Wednesday evening leaving 2ft to maybe 3ft sets at north-east magnets Thursday with offshore NW tending W/NW winds.

Longer term the outlook is a little more interesting with a stronger NE wind/mid-periodswell event on the cards for early next week, more on this Wednesday.