Eastern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Friday 19th October)

Best Days: Saturday, Sunday morning, Monday morning, Tuesday

Recap

Good amounts of NE swell continuing yesterday and today, getting cleaner and cleaner with great waves today.

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This weekend and next week (Oct 20– 26)

We've got plenty more swell out of the north-east on the cards for the coming period, with the fetch of NE winds off the southern NSW coast generating our recent swell retreating slowly today.

With this we'll see the swell dropping back through tomorrow from the 3ft range, mixed in with a local N/NE windswell as an approaching front creates a burst of N/NE winds overnight and early tomorrow.

Winds may be poor at dawn and still N'ly, swinging W'ly by mid-morning creating cleaner conditions with a shallow S'ly change likely through the afternoon.

Our new pulse of less consistent but stronger NE swell for Sunday and Monday is still on track, with a tropical low squeezing the northern flank of the strong high in the Tasman Sea, aiming a persistent fetch of strong E/NE winds towards us.

This has been the case since yesterday afternoon and will persist through the weekend in a weaker form resulting in persistent levels of less consistent NE swell, strongest Sunday and Monday morning, weaker into the rest of next week.

Open beaches should see 3ft+ waves through Sunday and more so 3ft Monday easing slowly from Tuesday, smaller into Wednesday.

Winds will be a little funky Sunday and Monday, variable before tending onshore, and then offshore from the NW tending W/NW on Tuesday and Wednesday with a front pushing across us.

Longer term there's a few swell possibilities but more on this Monday. Have a great weekend!