Eastern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 26th November)

Best Days: Tuesday morning, protected southern corners Wednesday morning, Thursday morning, Friday morning, northern corners Saturday, Sunday

Recap

Easing levels of SE swell from the 4-5ft range on the sets Saturday, while a new E/SE-SE swell combo filled in Sunday jacking the surf up again to the large range, best in protected spots.

This morning the swell has dropped back and cleaned up with good 3-4ft surf across most of the coast.

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This week and weekend (Nov 27 – Dec 2)

As touched on in Friday's notes, the easing trend in the wake of the vigorous Tasman Low sitting in our swell window since last week will be slow.

We've still got a great fetch of strong E/SE winds sitting off New Zealand's South Island with it weakening through tomorrow but remaining there through Wednesday before finally moving out of our swell window Thursday.

This will produce pulses of E/SE swell maintaining 3-4ft sets across open beaches tomorrow and and Wednesday morning, easing off slowly into the afternoon and from 3ft Thursday, 2ft Friday.

Another Tasman Low forming off the Sydney coast mid-week will drift slowly east-southeast through the end of the week, with a fetch of strong E/NE winds being aimed in our eastern swell window Thursday evening through Friday.

A good pulse of E/NE swell should be seen for Saturday to 2-3ft, similar but easing into Sunday morning but also mixed in with a N/NE windswell from a strong burst of N/NE winds down our coast Saturday afternoon and evening.

3ft of N/NE windswell is expected and winds will swing gusty offshore from the W/NW with a change.

Coming back to the winds over the coming week though, and tomorrow we'll see an early S/SW breeze, tending S/SE mid-morning and E into the afternoon, while Wednesday we may see lingering SE winds on the coast, hopefully variable early.

Thursday looks similar though with a morning variable wind more likely out of the S'th, offshore from the W Friday morning, N'th Saturday morning.

Longer term we've got more interesting developments into the middle of next week with another vigorous Tasman Low on the cards, but more on this Wednesday.