Eastern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Friday 5th May)

Best Days: Saturday south swell magnets, Sunday through Wednesday

Recap

Super fun waves the last two days with a good new S'ly swell yesterday to 3ft on the sets, while today there were still some 2ft waves hanging around with offshore winds.

This weekend and next week (May 6 - 12)

Small and inconsistent levels of southerly swell should persist tomorrow, with a flukey S/SE groundswell due to arrive and offer 2ft sets at magnets. Conditions will be clean all day, so be patient and scope the northern corners.

Our large S'ly swell event is still on track, with a deepening low pressure system expected to move across us and offshore Sunday.

We'll see a fetch of gale to severe-gale S'ly winds generated through our southern swell window, directly south-southeast of us, kicking up a large increase in S'ly swell Sunday to an easy 6-8ft at south magnets.

The low will remain strong into Sunday evening before moving off slowly to the east Monday resulting in a peak in swell early Monday morning, easing off into the afternoon and further Tuesday and Wednesday while tending more S/SE in direction.

South facing beaches should still be seeing 6-8ft sets early, easing back into the afternoon, further from 3-5ft Tuesday and 2-3ft Wednesday.

Winds on Sunday will be gusty from the SW all day, so through the day, semi-protected spots should offer fun waves as the swell slowly builds.

Monday will see less favourable S/SW winds, with W/SW offshores Tuesday and NW winds Wednesday.

Longer term there's nothing major on the cards, with some tiny and inconsistent NE trade-swell from above New Zealand likely to provide 1ft+ surf mid-late next week.

More on this Monday though, have a great weekend!