Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 15th December)

Best Days: Later Wednesday

Recap

A good pulse of SW groundswell pushed in Saturday morning with inconsistent 2ft to nearly 3ft sets under morning offshores. The swell eased through the day and dropped quicker than expected into Sunday with tiny 1-1.5ft leftovers. This morning the surf was tiny but clean before fresh to strong S'ly breezes kicked in.

This week (Dec 16 - 19)

Tomorrow is expected to be tiny with N/NE winds ahead of a late swing to the W/NW and then W/SW change. This will favour more exposed breaks over Clifton.

Our small pulse of long-range W/SW swell and closer-range W/SW swell is still on track Wednesday with small closely-spaced and unorganised 1-2ft waves due across Clifton all day.

The front generating the close-range swell will push across us around dawn and this will most likely bring with it fresh and gusty W/SW winds through the morning that may tend back to the W/NW later. So an after work surf rather than an early looks the go.

Come Thursday the swell is expected to be nearly gone with tiny 1ft+ peelers under strengthening offshore N'ly winds.

Another weaker front is expected to generate a burst of strong to gale-force W/SW winds under us Thursday evening and as a result only a tiny 1ft+ or so of swell is due to develop into Friday with average winds before fading Saturday under a morning NW'ly.

This weekend onwards (Dec 20 onwards)

Unfortunately there's nothing significant on the cards for the weekend and besides some small 1-2ft waves into Tuesday and Wednesday next week we're in for a continued run of small to tiny waves. Check back for any change to this on Wednesday though.