Southern Tasmania Forecast (issued Wednesday 17th September)

Best Days: Saturday morning, Sunday morning

Recap

A fun S/SE swell filled in yesterday with offshore winds opening up lots of options across the region. A drop in size was seen through the day with smaller 1-2ft waves left into today with early favourable winds ahead of a fresh onshore change.

This week and weekend (Sep 18 - 21)

A couple of small and weak increases in short-range SW swell are due over the coming few days as a series of weak cold fronts push up and across us.

The first increase tomorrow looks to be in the 2ft range, with a secondary pulse Friday to a similar size before easing back to 1-2ft Saturday morning.

This will replaced by a long-range and inconsistent W/SW groundswell through the afternoon though to a similar 1-2ft, generated by an unfavourably tracking polar frontal system that's currently south-west of WA.

Only an inconsistent 1-2ft wave is due through the afternoon, peaking Sunday to 2ft.

Now, winds tomorrow look poor and fresh from the SW while Friday unfortunately looks to see the trend continue as the secondary front pushes through.

Saturday will be cleaner with a morning W/NW'ly ahead of a swing to the W/SW into the afternoon with Sunday playing out similarly with NW tending W/SW winds.

Next week onwards (Sep 22 onwards)

Unfortunately there's still nothing major on the cards for next week as the storm track remains unfavourable, but we'll review this again Friday.