Eastern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 12th March)

Best Days: Tuesday morning, Wednesday, later Friday in northern corners, Saturday

Recap

Small to tiny surf over the weekend for keen surfers at magnets. This morning a small S/SE swell was continuing to provide 1-2ft waves this morning.

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This week and next week (Mar 13 - 18)

We've got some better S'ly groundswell due tomorrow, generated by a good front pushing past the south-east corner of the state today.

South magnets should see good 2-3ft sets tomorrow morning with offshore winds ahead of a mid-late afternoon shallow S'ly change.

Come Wednesday morning there isn't expected to be much size left with fading 1ft to maybe 2ft sets out of the south, but some new E/NE groundswell is due to build through the afternoon.

This was generated yesterday by ex-Tropical Cyclone Hola producing a fetch of severe-gale to storm-force E'ly winds on top of New Zealand's North Island.

While not ideally aimed, we should see some fun sets to 2ft to possibly 3ft with offshore W/NW winds ahead of weak sea breezes.

Now, moving into the end of the week, we're due to see a large S'ly groundswell pushing up the coast, generated by a very strong polar low developing south-west of us tomorrow evening.

In our swell window we're due to see a fetch of severe-gale SW winds projected north-east into the southern Tasman Sea, followed by a slower moving polar fetch of similar strength winds.

This should result in a large S'ly groundswell, coming in 4-5ft across south magnets on Friday, easing back from 3ft Saturday morning.

Winds unfortunately on Friday look poor and from the S'th tending gusty NE. So the best chance of a wave will likely be later in the day in northern corners.

Saturday looks much better with a W/NW offshore persisting most of the day mixed in with a small NE windswell from the NE winds.

Longer term we've got lots of opportunities from the south and east, but more on this Wednesday.