Eastern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 23rd February)

Best Days: Friday and Saturday south swell magnets, the South Arm

Recap

Nice and clean Saturday with a drop in swell from Friday back from 2ft, tiny yesterday.

Today the small N/NE windswell has come in as forecast with weak 1-2ft waves for the desperate.

This week and weekend (Feb 24 – Mar 1)

Unfortunately as touched on in the last update, there's nothing significant at all on the cards for this week.

Any windswell seen today from the NE will be gone tomorrow and tiny, with the next increase in swell due to arrive from the south late week.

The strong Southern Ocean frontal progression that will push from west to east under Australia this week will take a slightly more east-northeast tack later week, more through our swell window.

We'll be relying on heavily diffracted swell energy so it'll be inconsistent and only impact true south swell magnets but we should see 2-3ft sets developing across these spots into Friday, dropping back into Saturday.

The progression will weaken while slowly continuing east on the weekend, producing some small reinforcing S/SW swell for Sunday. Saturday is due to be smaller and back to 2ft at south magnets, similar Sunday with the secondary pulse.

Winds will be favourable for these south facing beaches with a NW tending W'ly breeze Friday, possibly S'ly later and then W/NW tending E/NE winds on Saturday. Sunday looks poor with a S'ly change but we'll confirm this on Wednesday.

Longer term there's more positive developments with a significant run of sizey NE swell on the cards from mid-late next week, but we'll review this in the next update.