Southern Tasmania Forecast (issued Wednesday 4th June)

Best Days: Thursday, Monday morning for beginners

Recap

The surf remained tiny through yesterday and in the 1-1.5ft range, while today started out tiny and clean but a late kick in W/SW swell may have been seen.

This week (Jun 5 - 6)

A strong mid-latitude pushing in from WA over the past couple of days weakened while crossing across us today, with a new fun W/SW groundswell due to fill in overnight and peak tomorrow morning (the Cape Sorell buoy is climbing nicely this evening).

This swell is expected to provide inconsistent 2ft sets across Clifton tomorrow morning and conditions should be clean with morning offshores. We may see winds holding from the W into the afternoon but confidence is about 60% on this.

Make the most of Thursday as the swell should drop quickly into Friday leaving tiny but clean 1ft+ waves across Clifton.

This weekend onwards (Jun 7 onwards)

There's nothing too major on the cards for this weekend besides tiny levels of inconsistent W/SW groundswell mixed in with a low quality windswell Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning as a weak polar front pushes up and across us.

Winds will swing fresh to strong onshore SW during Saturday morning with 1-2ft of junky swell due into the afternoon and Sunday looks poor as the swell eases and winds persist from the S/SW.

Monday is expected to be cleaner but there isn't any decent swell due above 1-1.5ft before fading into Tuesday.

Longer term the outlook is a little more positive as a strong node of the Long Wave Trough is due to move across South West WA and then the Bight mid-late next week. This should send a series of vigorous polar fronts up towards WA and SA later next week, with some W/SW groundswell on the cards for us next weekend. This is a long way down the track though, so check back for another update on Friday.