Eastern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Friday 6th March)

Best Days: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday morning

Recap

Large building surf from the NE through yesterday, improving into the afternoon and evening across selected spots and great today with cleaner conditions in southern corners as the swell eased.

This weekend and next week (Mar 7 - 13)

The remnants of Tropical Cyclone Esther has formed into a low just east of us, with a return flow of strong S/SW winds up the coast today due to generate a short-range S'ly swell for tomorrow.

Conditions won't be ideal with a SW-S/SW morning breeze and only waves on the south swell magnets to 3ft or so, 1-1.5ft in southern corners. Winds will shift S/SE into the afternoon and come Sunday we'll have poor S/SW tending S/SE winds and small, weak levels of swell.

As the weekend progresses though we'll see the low from Esther moving over towards New Zealand and stalling, generating a good fetch of strong to gale-force SE-E/SE winds in our eastern swell window, producing a good pulse of E/SE swell for early next week.

The swell should build steadily Monday and reach 3-5ft by dark, easing from 3-4ft+ on Tuesday morning.

Winds will be good Monday morning and SW, though shifting SE through the afternoon and then W/NW tending NE on Tuesday favouring most spots.

Wednesday will be nice and clean again but the swell fading back from a small 2ft.

This will be the only real swell worth working around this period, so make the most of it. Have a great weekend!