Eastern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Wednesday 21st August)

Best Days: Protected spots tomorrow, Friday

Recap

Tiny surf yesterday with a slight kick in S'ly swell this morning that should have shown a little more size later today.

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This week and weekend (Aug 22 - 15)

Currently a vigorous Southern Ocean frontal progression is pushing up and past us, with a fetch of gale-force SW winds generated in our southern swell window today.

This will generate a moderate sized S'ly groundswell for tomorrow, which alone should come in around 4-5ft, but a secondary front pushing up the coast early tomorrow will direct a better aligned fetch of S/SW gales up through our swell window, producing a larger and more powerful kick in swell.

We'll see south facing beaches kicking to 6ft to likely 8ft through the day (smaller protected spots - especially southern corners), but with poor and strong but easing S/SW winds.

Friday is still the pick as winds swing offshore out of the W/NW-NW along with rapidly easing 4-5ft+ of S/SE swell, down to 3-4ft.

Saturday will be clean again but the swell small to tiny and fading quickly from 1-2ft max.

Longer term there's nothing significant on the cards with the storm track remaining zonal and north in latitude, so make the most of the coming days swells!