Eastern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Friday 2nd August)

Best Days: Sunday onwards

Recap

Plenty of swell left in the wake of Wednesday's pulse yesterday, with great conditions through the morning.

Today a small and fleeting pulse of secondary S'ly swell was seen, generated by a significant low skirting up past our south-east corner. This swell is due to drop rapidly today, tiny into this afternoon.

Today’s Forecaster Notes are brought to you by Rip Curl

This weekend and early next week (Aug 3 – 9)

Tomorrow will start tiny to flat, but we'll see a broadening and strengthening polar frontal progression projecting a fetch of strong to gale-force SW winds past our south-east corner into the afternoon. There may be a small and late pulse of swell, but Sunday is the best day to surf with a better and larger groundswell filling in from the elongated SW fetch.

Size wise we're looking at surf between 3-5ft across south magnets on Sunday morning, easing a touch through the day and then easing slowly from a similar if not slightly smaller size Monday morning.

Our reinforcing S/SE groundswell for Tuesday is still on the cards, with a tight polar fetch of storm-force S/SW winds developing at the base of the progression moving through this weekend.A good kick to 3-4ft is due again on Tuesday, easing into Wednesday from 2-3ft.

Into the rest of the week we're likely to see fun background levels of S/SE swell owing to a persistent though small fetch of S/SE gales on the polar shelf early next week. It looks like sets between 2-3ft are due across south magnets until the weekend.

Coming back to the local winds and a morning W/NW will create great conditions tomorrow but with the tiny surf, though shifting S'th into the afternoon, W tending N'th on Sunday, favouring those south magnets.

NW winds will continue to favour south magnets Monday, similar Tuesday ahead of straighter W'ly tending N breeze Wednesday. Longer term a strong frontal progression moving across the south-east of the country may bring a S'ly swell with wind next week, but more on this Monday. Have a great weekend!