Eastern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Wednesday 29th May)

Best Days: Friday, Saturday, Sunday morning, Tuesday

Recap

A continuation of tiny to flat waves on the coast.

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This week and weekend (May 30 – Jun 2)

Tomorrow is looking suss, with a strong burst of S/SW winds up past our coast not expected to offer much over 3ft across south magnets in the morning, tiny at other beaches.

The swell is due to ease into the afternoon and morning SW winds will shift more W'ly, cleaning up south magnets but with no decent size left.

Of greater importance is a large S/SE groundswell due on Friday, generated by a great fetch of gale to severe-gale S/SE winds projected through our swell window today. This fetch will angle away from us tomorrow, but a final little push of S/SW gales should produce a reinforcing swell for the weekend.

The first pulse of S/SE groundswell is expected to fill in Friday and come in at 5-6ft across south magnets with fun waves at open beaches as well. Winds look favourable for more protected spots with a moderate to fresh SW tending S/SW breeze.

Saturday looks great with a light W/SW offshore breeze, tending variable ahead of N/NE sea breezes and a slow drop in size from 4-5ft or so.

Sunday will become more noticeably smaller with clean easing 3ft waves under a W/NW offshore.

Into early next week a polar front and small embedded low moving up past us should kick up a windswelly S/SE swell with average S/SW winds, cleaner as it eases on Tuesday. There might be a reinforcing SE swell from the backside of this low into later next week, but more on this Friday.