Eastern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Friday 18th January)

Best Days: South swell magnets through the day Monday

Recap

Tiny levels of background NE swell yesterday and today with clean conditions through the mornings.

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This weekend and next week (Jan 19 - 24)

The outlook for the coming period is still really average.

There's a flukey pulse of NE possible late tomorrow from a burst of strong N/NE winds off the southern NSW coast this evening, but in all reality we'll be lucky to see 1-1.5ft sets, and a morning W/SW wind will give into NE sea breezes, creating average conditions.

We've got a flukey small S'ly groundswell possible for Monday now, with a zonal but strong low moving in from the west towards and then under the state due to generate a fetch of gale to severe-gale W'ly winds just in our southern swell window.

The swell is due to fill in Monday and peak through the middle of the day/early afternoon to 2ft to possibly 3ft at south magnets. Winds are looking great for south magnets as well with a morning W/NW offshore and NE sea breezes.

Mid-week a polar front pushing up and past us looks to bring a windy increase in S';ly windswell Wednesday with some possible better and cleaner small S'ly swell Thursday morning. More on this Monday though. Have a great weekend!