Eastern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 16th July)

Best Days: Tuesday northern corners, Saturday afternoon and Sunday south swell magnets

Recap

Workable waves on Saturday with a mix of swells and early light winds, much better Sunday with a stronger building E/SE swell with all day offshores.

This swell has eased as expected into this morning as we fall in between swell pulses. A new increase in E'ly groundswell should have been seen later today though, discussed in more detail below.

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Yesterday and this morning's E/SE swell were generated by a fetch of E/SE-SE winds around the southern flank of a Tasman Low sitting east of us on the weekend, but an additional fetch of stronger E/NE gales were generated on the lows eastern flank, producing a reinforcing E'ly groundswell that should of arrived later today.

This swell is expected to peak overnight and drop rapidly through tomorrow likely from 3ft early across open beaches, small to tiny into Wednesday.

Northern corners are looking cleanest with a strengthening NW tending N/NW breeze into the afternoon.

Our models are showing an increase in NW windswell into the afternoon, similar Thursday but as we all know, our coast doesn't receive such swell and will become flat under these fresh to strong NW winds. If you're up for a surf try the north coast for a wave.

Moving into the weekend we may see a small and relatively weak pulse of mid-period S'ly swell on Saturday, generated by a weakening frontal progression aiming a fetch of strong SW winds past the south-east corner of the state.

We may see 2-3ft sets developing at south magnets into the afternoon, fading from 2ft Sunday morning along with favourable W/NW winds.

Besides this there's nothing really to talk about over the coming period, so make the most of tomorrow.