Southern Tasmania Forecast (issued Friday 30th May)

Best Days: Saturday afternoon, Sunday and Monday at exposed spots, Tuesday, Thursday

Recap

Yesterday's increase in S/SW swell actually had a secondary kick through this morning with bigger than expected 2-3ft waves breaking across Clifton under offshore winds. This swell should of eased into this afternoon as conditions glassed off with a variable breeze.

This weekend through Tuesday (May 31 - Jun 3)

With today's swell expected to fade overnight, a couple of inconsistent and small-tiny SW groundswells are due to fill in.

These swells aren't expected to provide much size above 1ft+ tomorrow afternoon and 1-1.5ft through Sunday and also Monday and Tuesday (1-2ft) next week. The source of these swells are a series of unfavourable aligned polar fronts firing up late in our swell window. Winds will be good for searching around the region though with a NW tending N/NE breeze tomorrow, N/NE winds Sunday/Monday and N/NW Tuesday.

Into Wednesday and Thursday a touch more size should be seen across the South Arm as a stronger and more favourably mid-latitude low moves in under the country towards us. This system is forecast to generate a fetch of W/SW gales while dipping east-southeast in track.

The swell should arrive through Wednesday and reach 1-2ft into the afternoon as winds go onshore from the W/SW. Thursday is looking better as winds go back around to the NW and persist all day with 1-2ft or so of swell.

Longer term the next noticeable increase in swell is on the cards for Sunday from the SW but not above 2ft or so again. Check back here on Monday for the latest on this and in the meantime have a great weekend!