Eastern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 26th February)

Best Days: Tuesday morning south swell magnets, Wednesday open beaches keen surfers, later Thursday southern corners, Friday morning open beaches

Recap

Good clean fun waves out of the NE on Saturday to 2-3ft with an offshore wind ahead of a S'ly change which brought an increase in bumpy S/SE swell Sunday.

Some reinforcing SE swell with better offshore winds kept 2-3ft waves hitting the coast today.

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This weekend and next week (Feb 27 – Mar 4)

The trough responsible for yesterday's and today's swell has since moved off to the east, with a drop in size due through tomorrow, though one final pulse of SE swell should keep 2-3ft sets hitting magnets through the morning, easing through the day and back to 1ft+ Wednesday morning.

Conditions will be great in northern corners with a N/NW tending fresh N/NE breeze tomorrow and then N/NW winds all day Wednesday mixed in with some small N/NE windswell to 1-2ft or so on the sets.

There'll also likely be some small E'ly swell spreading from a surface trough that's currently sitting off the southern NSW coast, generating a broad fetch of strong E/SE winds.

Only a small 1-2ft wave is due, but this will keep the coast active.

This trough is forecast to deepen into a low tomorrow while drifting towards New Zealand, producing a better fetch of gale-force E/SE winds in our swell window.

We should see a fun pulse of E'ly groundswell from this development, arriving later Thursday and kicking to 2-3ft, coming in around a similar size Friday morning.

A small weak S'ly windswell will be in the mix in the wake of a S'ly change Thursday, but only reaching a 2-3ft at south magnets later in the day, easing from a similar if not slightly smaller size Friday morning.

Winds will accordingly be fresh from the SW tending S/SE on Thursday with light W/NW tending E/NE winds Friday.

Into the weekend there's nothing major due with small easing levels of E/SE swell with good morning winds.

Longer term the outlook is also quiet so make the most of the coming swell pulses.