Eastern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Friday 26th October)

Best Days: Sunday morning, Monday morning south swell magnets, later Friday

Recap

Tiny levels of background NE swell yesterday and today, but too small to surf.

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This week and weekend (Oct 27– Nov 2)

Tomorrow will start tiny, but a strong cold front pushing up past the coast will bring with it a strong S/SW wind and late increase in building S'ly windswell turning mid-period energy that's expected to peak overnight and ease slowly Sunday.

The strength of the front has been upgraded and with this we should see 3ft+ waves across across south facing beaches, smaller in more protected spots and winds are looking better with a morning W/SW breeze, onshore into the afternoon as the swell eases.

Monday looks to still be 2ft+ out of the S/SE, easing through the day along with a variable tending E and then NE breeze.

The surf is then due to become tiny to flat until later in the week when a new N/NE windswell event is due to develop. There's the chance for a small S'ly signal to 1-2ft on Tuesday morning at south swell magnets, but it will likely be too west in nature.

The N/NE windswell event will be generated by a trough sliding in from the west, squeezing a small high in the Tasman Sea, generating a well aimed fetch of strengthening E/NE-NE winds towards us.

This should produce a rapid increase in size from later Thursday through Friday, reaching a fun 3ft+ across north-east facing beaches ahead of a late NW change. We'll have a closer look at this on Monday and confirm as the European model isn't as favourable regarding the expected size. Have a great weekend!