Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Wednesday 10th December)

Best Days: Friday morning for beginners, Saturday, Sunday morning, Monday morning for beginners, early Wednesday

Recap

Tiny clean waves for a period yesterday morning and a slight lift in swell under early favourable winds this morning before winds went funky and from the S/SE.

This week and weekend (Dec 11 - 14)

Tomorrow will be a lay day with an early morning onshore change leaving S/SW winds across the coast as today's small kick in swell eases.

Friday should be cleaner again but there'll be no real size above 1ft across Clifton. This will be ideal for beginners.

Of greater importance is our strong pulse of SW groundswell for Saturday. This swell is still on track, with a small polar low moving over an active sea state currently positioned to our south-west, due to move under us tomorrow.

This swell should peak at 2-3ft across Clifton Saturday morning under offshore N/NW tending NE winds.

The swell will ease through the day, so go the early for the most size. Sunday will be clean again through the morning but smaller and easing from 2ft or so on the sets.

Monday onwards (Dec 15 onwards)

Monday will be marginal as the weekend's swell continues to ease from 1-1.5ft or so but conditions will be great with a morning N/NW breeze.

For the rest of the week we'll receive plenty of swell across the West Coast but it'll be mainly too west for the South Arm for us to see any major size. This will be due to the frontal systems generating the swell being too high and up in the Bight, with the biggest pulse of Wednesday due to only come in at 1-2ft.

The storm track will become slightly more favourable into the end of the week, but again we're not looking at much above 2ft at this stage. We'll review this Friday though.