Eastern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 28th May)

Best Days: Friday morning, the weekend onwards

Recap

Great waves again Saturday with the swell easing back to the 3-4ft range, though magnets should of still seen a few bigger ones, with Sunday dropping back further.

This morning there was hardly any swell left at all.

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This weekend and next week (May 26 – Jun 1)

Besides a tiny increase in N/NE windswell through tomorrow afternoon, fading Wednesday our next significant swell looks to arrive from the south through Thursday

A small low pushing up and past the south-east corner of the state during the day is expected to generate a fetch of strong to gale-force S/SW winds along the coast Thursday, kicking up a building S'ly windswell through the day, easing out of the S/SE Friday morning.

This low will be the catalyst for a stronger and broader Tasman Low forming east of us, with a good fetch of SE gales being projecting towards us through our eastern swell window on Friday.

We'll see a better aligned and stronger E/SE swell produced by this fetch, building through Saturday and then easing off slowly through Sunday, with a possible reinforcing east pulse on Monday.

Coming back to the sizes and Thursday looks to build to 4-5ft later in the day with strong S/SW winds, easing back from 3-4ft Friday morning with SW tending S'ly winds.

Saturday looks at this stage to kick to 4-5ft across open beaches with SW tending S/SE winds, slowly easing Sunday with a light morning W'ly. Monday's pulse will be with offshore winds as well, but we'll review this Wednesday.