Eastern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 3rd December)

Best Days: Friday, Saturday morning

Recap

A fun building E/NE swell on Saturday to 2-3ft across open beaches, while Sunday we had a more consistent N/NE windswell in the mix with great conditions. This morning we're back to the smaller stuff with a stiff offshore.

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This week and weekend (Nov 4 - 9)

A strong frontal system pushing across us this afternoon and evening will be too west in nature to generate any swell for our region, but into the end of the week and weekend we've got a good N/NE windswell event that should last a couple of days.

A strong high in the Tasman will be stubborn and squeezed by a surface trough drifting in from the west later in the week.

We'll see a good broad fetch of strengthening N/NE winds down the coast from Thursday, reaching a peak in intensity early Friday morning, though remaining in our swell window through Saturday before breaking down Sunday.

This should see building levels of N/NE windswell Thursday to 2ft+ late in the day, with 3ft+ waves on Friday, easing slowly back from 2-3ft Saturday morning, smaller and 1-2ft Sunday.

Winds Friday will be generally out of the N/NW, swinging W/NW later in the day, with offshore winds Saturday ahead of a shallow SE change as the trough finally moves through. Sunday looks a little dicey with S/SE winds, but we'll review this on Wednesday.