Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Wednesday 7th January)

Best Days: No good days until possibly next week

Recap

Tiny waves continued through yesterday and into this morning with an unfavourable NE breeze, but a kick in size was seen through the day, with exposed spots away from Clifton fairing best.

This week and weekend (Jan 8 -11)

Today's swell should drop away through tomorrow from a tiny 1ft+ and winds will be favourable for beginners with an offshore N/NW'ly before a funky onshore change moves through.

This change will be related to a trough pushing across us and winds should revert back to the W/NW early Friday before a weak front clips the state.

This front will generate a broad but relatively weak fetch of SW winds producing a small fun SW swell for Saturday morning to 2ft across Clifton.

The only issue are the local winds and they look poor with a gusty SE-E/SE breeze due, creating poor conditions.

Come Sunday the trough generating the onshore winds is due to weaken resulting in lighter and more variable breezes but tiny amounts of swell to 1ft.

Monday onwards (Jan 12 onwards)

The outlook for next week is still a little shady with the current tropical activity to our north, but we may see further pulses of fun SW groundswell for Tuesday and Wednesday from polar frontal activity firing up in our swell window. We'll confirm or discard this on Friday though.