Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Friday 28th November)

Best Days: Later Saturday for keen surfers, Sunday morning out of the wind, Monday morning out of the wind and at exposed breaks

Recap

Yesterday didn't offer anything too major but today a mix of SW groundswell and S/SE swell came in at 2-3ft across Clifton under morning offshores.

This swell should of ease through the day with fresh sea breezes.

This weekend (Nov 27 - 30)

Tomorrow will start out slow and onshore with small amounts of leftovers and a trough moving through bringing S/SW tending SE winds.

A strong new SW groundswell should build through the afternoon and kick to 2-3ft+ late in the day though, generated by a vigorous polar low yesterday and early this morning.

A peak in size is due overnight but we should still see 3ft sets early Sunday before fading through the day back to 2ft. Winds will unfortunately be less than ideal with a fresh and gusty E/NE tending NE'ly blowing across Clifton limiting the best waves to protected eastern corners.

Next week onwards (Dec 1 onwards)

Into Monday the SW swell will really back away from a leftover 1-2ft under stronger NE winds.

These NE winds are due to persist until Tuesday as the swell bottoms out, and then swing onshore from the S'th Wednesday as a trough pushes across us from the west. This is expected to kick up a weak windswell mixed in with a small long-range SW groundswell but there'll be no decent options for a wave.

Therefore with this in mind try and work around the strong SW groundswell and E/NE-NE winds Sunday and smaller fading swell with strong NE winds Monday. Have a great weekend!