Eastern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Wednesday 30th January)

Best Days: North-east swell magnets tomorrow morning desperate surfers, Sunday northern corners desperate surfers

Recap

Tiny surfing options yesterday and similar today.

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This week and weekend (Jan 31 – Feb 3)

Our windswell event for the end of the week is still looking dicey with an elongated and strong fetch of N/NE winds developing down the southern NSW coast extending down to us, but sitting fairly far offshore and away from the coast.

The fetch looks even further away than it did on Monday and with this I've dropped the expected size back to 1-2ft tomorrow morning, fading through the day.

Conditions still look favourable for north-east swell magnets with a fresh S/SW tending SE breeze.

We're looking at another N/NE windswell event into the weekend and this will be more localised but the fetch strength, weaker.

During Saturday a weak fetch of N/NE winds will develop down the coast, kicking up a small increase in windswell to 2ft or so later in the day, with Sunday morning revealing a bit more strength and sets to 2ft+ or so.

Winds will be average for spots seeing the size though with a N'ly tending fresh N/NE breeze Saturday and slightly better N tending N/NW winds Sunday.

Monday will be cleaner in southern corners with a S/SE change but fading 1-1.5ft sets.

Also on the weekend may be sneaky pulse of small S'ly swell from a deepening low south-west of New Zealand Friday, but nothing really over 1-2ft is expected Sunday and Monday.

Longer term there's nothing significant on the cards unfortunately so the outlook remains poor.