Eastern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Wednesday 11th April)

Best Days: Late tomorrow, Friday morning, next Wednesday

Recap

Average surf yesterday with N/NE winds, improving later with a new SE swell and building N/NE windswell, while today we've seen a good mix of swells with clean conditions ahead of a S/SE change favouring southern corners.

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This week and weekend (Apr 12 - 15)

Today's onshore change is linked to a developing mid-latitude low across South Australia, with this low expected to dip south-east across us through tomorrow.

This will see a fetch of strong E/NE winds aimed into us tomorrow morning kicking up a short-lived increase in windswell to 2-3ft along with E/NE winds, swinging more NE into the afternoon and then N/NW near dark as the low moves offshore.

Also in the mix will be a strong SE groundswell from a strong low positioned south of New Zealand earlier this week, followed by an additional fetch of S'ly gales up through our swell window.

We should see 3-4ft sets out of the south-east through tomorrow, easing back slowly through Friday from 2-3ft.

With the late shift in NW winds forecast tomorrow, keep an eye out for a late surf window. Friday should be clean through the morning with a NW breeze, likely giving into N/NE sea breezes.

Moving into the weekend and the SE groundswell will continue to fade, but we may see a short-lived spike of N/NE windswell from a burst of N/NE winds down our coast early in the morning, though not likely above 1-2ft. Strong NW winds will also quickly kick the swell in the guts.

Through the rest of the weekend, strong mid-latitude fronts pushing across us will generate swell that will be too west to impact us, while we've got a moderate to large S'ly groundswell on the cards for Wednesday as a fetch of polar gale to severe-gale SW winds project up past us early next week.

At this stage we're probably looking at surf to 4-5ft+ with hopefully offshore winds, but more on this Friday.