Southern Tasmania Forecast (issued Wednesday 2nd Jul)

Best Days: Saturday at exposed spots

Recap

A good increase in SW swell was seen yesterday to 2-3ft across Clifton with offshore winds through the morning before swinging onshore into the arvo.

Today small leftover 1-2ft waves were seen and conditions remained clean all day.

This week and weekend (Jul 2 – Jul 6)

Unfortunately there's nothing major on the cards for the rest of this week besides tiny levels of background W/SW groundswell and a sneaky S/SE swell for Friday to 1ft+ or so.

Saturday looks like the best day to surf as a small and short-lived pulse of S/SW groundswell fills in. This will be generated by a small but intense polar low firing up to the south-southwest of the state tomorrow, aiming a burst of SW gales through our swell window.

A small but fun 1-2ft wave should be seen across Clifton, but you may be better off further afield as winds will be fresh from the E/NE through the morning, tending N/NE during the day. We may see a late shift to the NW, but I wouldn't count on it.

The swell will fade quickly overnight leaving tiny surf into Sunday.

Next week onwards (Jul 7 onwards)

As touched on last update, next week will remain void of swell until the Long Wave Trough moves over us later in the week.

When this occurs we may see some more favourable polar frontal activity directed up towards us, instead of staying north and out of our swell window, but we'll review this Friday.