Eastern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Wednesday February 16th)

Best Days: South swell magnets Saturday morning and Sunday morning

Features of the Forecast (tl;dr)

• Tiny N/NE windswell tomorrow
• Small, mid-period S'ly swell for Sat AM, easing through the day with W/NW tending strong N/NE winds
• Inconsistent S'ly groundswell Sun AM, easing later with freshening N/NW winds
• Small N/NE windswell Sun PM, easing Mon AM

Recap

Small to tiny levels of swell out of the south and north-east.

This week and weekend (Jan 17 - 20)

Afternoon N/NE sea breezes aren’t expected to kick up any surfable N/NE windswell tomorrow morning, so we then rely on a strong frontal progression pushing across as into the afternoon and Friday to generate some small, flukey S’ly swell but all up it’s looking fairly average.

Tomorrow’s front will be too zonal, while Friday's looks better aligned but short-lived.

Saturday may see a small pulse of mid-period S’ly swell to 2ft on the south magnets from Friday's front along with W/NW tending strong N/NE winds.

On Sunday a similar sized S’ly groundswell is expected, generated by a tight polar fetch of S/SW gales generated at the base of Friday’s front, and winds will be favourable all day, freshening from the N/NW.

Hit the south swell magnets early for the most size. Besides some tiny N/NE windswell Sunday afternoon and Monday morning, we’re looking at a touch more juice from the NE into Wednesday and Thursday next week. At this stage it looks to be windswell with a touch more punch, but we'll review this Friday.