Eastern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 9th July)

Best Days: Tuesday morning south swell magnets

Recap

It's great to be back after my sojourn around the Basque Country, if you get a chance it's more than worth a trip.

Tiny waves Saturday and early Sunday ahead of an increase in new S'ly swell through the afternoon, best this morning with offshore winds and good clean lines of S'ly swell.

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The frontal system responsible for later yesterday and today's S'ly swell has pushed off to the east and away from our swell window, resulting in a drop in size through tomorrow, tiny into Wednesday.

Hit the south swell magnets tomorrow for easing 3ft sets under an all day offshore W/NW breeze.

Unfortunately there isn't much on the cards for the rest of the week across our region with a possible small pulse of S'ly swell Thursday afternoon to 1-2ft at south magnets from a weak and poorly structured polar front passing under us tomorrow evening.

This will be variable weak sea breezes after morning offshores and very flukey.

Into the weekend, a slightly better though still flukey pulse of inconsistent long-period S'ly groundswell is likely across south magnets Saturday morning.

This will be produced by the final stages of a strong though weakening polar low in our swell window through Thursday, with a fetch of W'ly gales generated just in our swell window.

Size wise we're only expecting small 2ft sets across south magnets under a W'ly tending NE breeze. I'd have low expectations for this swell though.

Longer term there's some better developments possible for early next week from a Tasman Low forming off New Zealand. Some good E'lu swell may be seen, but more on this Wednesday.