Southern Tasmania Forecast (issued Wednesday 29th October)

Best Days: Later tomorrow in protected spots, Friday, Monday

Recap

Yesterday started out slow but into the afternoon and evening, a strong and large pulse of W/SW groundswell filled in, offering good waves in protected locations with a fresh to strong W/NW breeze.

This morning the swell was on the ease but much cleaner and better at more exposed spots under a NW breeze. The swell should of eased noticeably into this afternoon but remained clean as winds tended W/NW.

This week (Oct 30 - 31)

Tomorrow will start out slow again, but Clifton should still offer 2ft sets. A solid pulse of SW groundswell expected through the afternoon is still on track with a vigorous polar low firing up to our south-west today, aiming a fetch of severe-gale to storm-force W/SW winds through our swell window.

This swell should build to 3-5ft late tomorrow across Clifton ahead of a peak overnight and drop from 3-4ft Friday morning, down to 2ft+ during the afternoon.

Winds tomorrow should be good early and from the NW, but a shift to the W/SW is expected through the morning, creating bumpy conditions onto the afternoon and evening as the swell kicks.

Friday will be great though with persistent N/NW winds.

This weekend onwards (Nov 1 onwards)

The weekend is a little hit and miss, with a new W/SW groundswell due Saturday afternoon due to be met with fresh onshore W/SW winds, while Sunday will be no better with an early SW change expected to linger all day.

The swell will be generated by the fronts pushing through over the weekend and better aimed towards Victoria and on the edge of our swell window. Clifton is only due to see 2-3ft sets before fading through Sunday.

Some funky S'ly swell form the backside of the low should hold into Monday as winds tend variable, but only to 2ft or so.

Longer term there's nothing major on the cards, so make the most of the coming couple of days of waves!