Eastern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Wednesday 10th April)

Best Days: South magnets Friday morning but more so Saturday morning, northern corners later Tusday and Wednesday, Thursday

Recap

Tiny surf yesterday, similar today with nothing of note to ride.

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This week and next week (Apr 11 - 19)

The end of this week is looking flukey at best, with a small southerly swell due to build through tomorrow afternoon and ease Friday.

The source of this swell was a relatively weak but broad and elongated fetch of SW winds through our southern swell window.

South swell magnets are only likely to see very inconsistent 2ft waves tomorrow afternoon and Friday morning, fading through the day.

Afternoon NE sea breezes will create OK conditions tomorrow, while Friday morning looks best with a N/NW offshore, persisting all day.

We've got a better S'ly swell due Saturday morning though, produced by a good fetch of strong to near gale-force SW winds forming on the edge of our swell window, south-southeast of us this evening and tomorrow morning.

A good spike to 2-3ft out of the S'th will hopefully be seen Saturday morning with a W'ly offshore, giving into a S'ly change through the late morning.

Now of greater importance is the N/NE windswell event due next week and follow up NE trade-swell.

As touched on in Monday's notes a strong high will move in between us and New Zealand, squeezed by a series of strong cold fronts pushing in from the west. This will direct a persistent and strong fetch of N/NE winds through our swell window, building from Tuesday and peaking through Wednesday but with winds from the N-N/NE. Thursday looks clean as the swell eases, only to be replaced by NE trade-swell as the high is squeezed on its northern flank.

A persistent fetch of strong E'ly winds north of New Zealand should generate the fun NE swell, arriving ater next week and persisting through the Easter weekend at least, but we'll look at this more closely on Friday.