Eastern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Wednesday 28th March)

Best Days: Saturday north swell magnets

Recap

Yesterday's south pulse was a little slow going early but kicked nicely through the day, though come this morning there was hardly any size left at all, with a tiny weak windswell this morning.

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This week and weekend (Mar 29 – Apr 1)

As touched on in the last forecast update, there's nothing major due over this coming period besides small inconsistent levels of NE swell from the Coral Sea.

Tropical Cyclone Iris formed in the Solomon Island region over the weekend and has since weakened back into a tropical low while drifting south to a position off the Gold Coast and south-west of New Caledonia.

We're seeing a good fetch of gale-force E/NE winds blowing over the same stretch of water through today and tomorrow morning before weakening.

This will be just within our northern swell window, with a small NE groundswell pulse due Saturday, coming in at an inconsistent 2ft+ across north swell magnets, much smaller elsewhere.

We'll see the swell ease Sunday but a weak persistent fetch of trades on the edge of our swell window looks to maintain 1ft to occasionally 2ft sets through Monday morning.

Winds on Saturday look good with a light W/NW, freshening from the NW through the day, persisting most of Sunday. Monday will see straighter Wly winds ahead of a late change.

This change now looks too weak to generate any major S'ly swell for Tuesday, with some better polar frontal activity likely to generate some S'ly groundswell Thursday.

More on this Friday.