Eastern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Friday 16th March)

Best Days: Saturday, Sunday morning open beaches

Recap

Small leftover amounts of swell from the E/NE yesterday, with some new S'ly energy today but with less than ideal winds that have worsened through the day.

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This week and next week (Mar 17 - 23)

Today's S'ly swell was created by a weakening though broad polar low and front pushing up past the south-east corner of the state.

We'll see the swell ease back through tomorrow from a fun 2-3ft across south magnets, mixed in with a small peaky N/NE windswell.

This windswell will be generated this evening and should come in at 2-3ft across north-east magnets tomorrow morning before easing quickly through the day as a N/NW change moves in.

Northern corners will be cleanest through the day.

A restrengthening of the N/NE fetch down the coast tomorrow evening will kick the N/NE windswell back up through Sunday morning, keeping 2ft+ sets hitting the coast (fading through the day) with a strong W/NW change.

The swell will then become tiny into early next week under gusty offshore winds as a series of strong fronts push across the state.

This will generate large surf for exposed west and south facing locations, but the activity will be too west to influence us.

A S'ly change Tuesday afternoon and evening is due to kick up some small S'ly swell for Wednesday but with average winds.

Behind this though we may see a high stalling in the Tasman Sea, generating some E'ly swell late week/next weekend, but more on this Monday. Have a great weekend!