Eastern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Wednesday 29th July)

Best Days: Tomorrow morning, Friday, Saturday

Recap

Great waves yesterday with a large, strong pulse of E/NE groundswell with favourable conditions in southern corners, easing back to 3-4ft today.

This week and weekend (Jul 30 – Aug 2)

We'll see our current swell continuing to drop in size tomorrow, easing from 2ft to maybe 3ft on the swell magnets tomorrow with a W/SW offshore, giving into NE sea breezes.

Moving into the end of the week and our strengthen fetch of NE winds as another deepening trough come low drifts south through the Tasman Sea is on track. This fetch will be more distant and brief through our swell window.

An initial pulse of NE energy is likely to be seen Friday afternoon ahead of the best pulse of Saturday, even though the models show a peak later Friday.

This will be from a burst of NE gales around the lows core, and we should see sets hitting 3ft to possibly 4ft at the swells peak, easing through the afternoon and small to 2ft max Sunday.

Conditions should remain clean with a W/NW offshore Friday morning ahead sea breezes, freshening NW Saturday.

Now, moving into next week the models diverge on a significant cold outbreak across the south-east of the country, and what a broad low will do once it drifts east into our swell window.

We'll have to take a closer look at this on Friday.