Eastern Tasmania Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 21st July)

Best Days: Tuesday

Recap

Friday's average short-range S'ly swell was replaced by a better S/SE swell through Saturday and offshore winds, with 3-4ft sets across most beaches and more size at exposed south facing breaks.

Sunday offered a straighter W'ly breeze as the S/SE swell backed off from 2-3ft or so.

Today a mix of fading SE swell and new S'ly groundswell have continued to offer 1-2ft waves across open beaches with more size at south swell magnets.

This week onwards (Jul 21 onwards)

Today's S'ly swell is expected to ease back through tomorrow but a small and infrequent E'ly swell should be in the mix, with open beaches expected to offer 1-2ft waves most of the day before fading into Wednesday. Winds will be great with offshore tending variable breezes.

Into the end of the week there's nothing major on the cards besides a possible flukey S'ly groundswell pulse Thursday afternoon from a polar low forming late in our swell window. Any swell off this system isn't expected to top 1ft to maybe 2ft at swell magnets and winds will be onshore from the NE in any case.

Into Friday and Saturday a tiny NE tending E/NE swell is due as a weak and broad surface trough moving off the East Coast aims a fetch of strong NE tending E/NE winds towards us.

This system looks really weak and only a tiny 1ft+ of swell is due at best, but this may be upgraded, so check back here on Wednesday for more on this.