Eastern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Wednesday 17th January)

Best Days: Thursday and Friday

Recap

Fun easing S/SE windswell through yesterday, while today we've got a new E/SE swell on the building. Open beaches were around 2ft+ but we should see the surf reaching 3ft later today though with sea breezes.

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This week and weekend (Jan 18 - 21)

Tomorrow and Friday will be the pick of the forecast period with a peak in E/SE groundswell and favourable winds.

Over the last day or two we've seen a very intense Tasman Low developing east of us, with a fetch of S/SE gales sitting just within our eastern swell window.

This low will weaken from this afternoon while remaining positioned to our east, with a strong pulse of E/SE groundswell due to peak tomorrow, spreading radially off the low before easing Friday.

Open beaches across the northern half of the coast should see 3-4ft+ waves most of tomorrow, easing later in the day and down from 2-3ft Friday morning.

A W/NW tending N/NW wind will keep conditions clean most of tomorrow, persisting from the NW Friday.

The E/SE swell will be all but gone on Saturday with fading 1-2ft sets, mixed in with a poor building S/SE windswell along with fresh S/SE winds.

These S/SE winds will be linked to a weak trough developing off the coast, but the fetch of E'ly winds that were due to generate some better E'ly windswell Sunday/Monday looks much weaker.

We're looking at onshore 1-2ft waves with no real power or push.

Longer term there's nothing to significant on the cards until mid-late week but more on this Friday.