Eastern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Friday 9th July)

Best Days: Monday selected locations, Tuesday

Features of the Forecast (tl;dr)

Recap

• Easing S swell tomorrow with a small, weak E windswell
• Variable winds tomorrow AM, tending E/SE, W tending fresh N on Sun
• Building NE swell late Sun, easing Mon with fresh N/NW winds
• Inconsistent E/SE groundswell Tue with fresh NW winds

This weekend and next week (Jul 10 - 16)

Our current S'ly swell should ease back through tomorrow, fading from an inconsistent 1-2ft across the south swell magnets, mixed in with a tiny, peaky E'ly windswell.

The windswell will be generated as a strong, deepening Tasman Low off the Sydney and Newcastle region, with its southern flank just interacting with us locally.

We'll see a temporary weak fetch of E'ly wind aimed into us tomorrow, generating 1-2ft waves but also bringing S/SW tending E/SE winds to the coast (only light).

The Tasman Low now looks a touch better for swell generation with it being so broad and strong, with fetch of E/SE gales generated just within our swell window. The best aligned fetch will be generated Saturday morning with a fun pulse of NE swell due later Sunday to 2-3ft across north-east swell magnets, easing quickly from a similar size Monday.

Looking at the local conditions and Sunday should see W tending fresh N'ly winds, N/NW through Monday, not ideal for those north-east magnets.

As the NE swell fades, we should see some very inconsistent but good E/SE groundswell across the coast on Tuesday, generated by tricky low that's firing up south-east of New Zealand. A fetch of severe-gale SE winds will be projected towards us tomorrow, with a good spike in swell to 3ft due Tuesday, though there'll be a wait for the sets.

Conditions look good with NW winds all day Tuesday but we'll confirm this on Monday.

Longer term we're looking at a funky trough come low forming in the Tasman Sea again later next week, generating a good pulse of E'ly swell, but we'll have a closer look at this in the next update. Have a great weekend!