Eastern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 22nd June)

Best Days: Tomorrow morning, keen surfers protected spots Thursday, Friday onwards

Recap

A tiny start to the weekend but a new E/NE swell filled in on Sunday offering great 3-4ft waves with favourable winds for southern corners. The swell eased back temporarily as expected today to a clean and fun 2-3ft, but we've got plenty more action on the way.

This week and weekend (June 23 - 28)

The weekend's swell was generated by an infeed of E/NE winds into a broad and stalling low to our west and this temporarily shifted south and out of our swell window.

It's now strengthening and moving east, with a fetch of strong SE winds due to be projected into our coast tomorrow, though an infeed of E/SE winds will generate some new E/SE swell just ahead of a localised spike in SE windswell tomorrow afternoon.

Conditions will be good early with a SW breeze, becoming poor from mid-late morning as strong S/SE-SE winds push up the coast as the swell builds from 3-4ft to a stormy 6ft to nearly 8ft through the late afternoon.

Winds will remain average and out of the SE on Wednesday as the swell starts to ease and swing more E/SE in direction as the low slowly moves east and the swell producing fetch swings E/SE.

We'll be looking at easing 6ft+ waves but come Thursday winds should swing offshore out of the W/NW tending NW as the swell drops further from 4ft or so.

This will only be a temporary drop, with the the low due to strengthen off New Zealand, projecting a fetch of E'ly gales through our eastern swell window Wednesday afternoon through Thursday.

A large and powerful E/NE groundswell should be generated, with it due to arrive Friday afternoon and kick to 4-5ft+, with a peak Saturday to 4-6ft across the northern half of the coast. With the low staying at arms length, conditions will remain great with W/SW tending SW winds on Friday and W/SW tending variable breezes Saturday.

The swell should start easing later Saturday and more so Sunday from 3-4ft with favourable conditions, much smaller and down from 2ft Monday. Following this the outlook isn't too special to make the most of the coming run of quality swell.