Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 23rd February)

Best Days: Tuesday morning, Wednesday morning

Recap

Saturday morning offered small clean waves with an easing swell, while Sunday was tiny and only surfable for beginners.

Today the surf started out tiny, but a new inconsistent long-range W/SW groundswell should be breaking across the South Arm now with Cape Sorell kicking nicely although a strong S'ly change has since moved through.

This week (Feb 24 – 27)

This afternoon's increase in inconsistent W/SW groundswell should reach the 2ft+ range and a secondary more consistent W/SW swell due tomorrow should see sets holding a similar size most of the day, generated by a better aligned mid-latitude front pushing through our swell window the last couple of days.

A drop in size is then due Wednesday from 1-2ft, becoming tiny into the end of the week but not dropping below 1ft due to background frontal activity.

Conditions tomorrow morning should be clean with an early NW'ly before winds tend back to the SW mid-late morning and then S/SE into the afternoon. Wednesday should then see N/NW winds ahead of fresh afternoon S/SE sea breezes.

This weekend onwards (Feb 28 onwards)

The weekend isn't looking to flash with tiny waves through Saturday and a possible small kick in size Sunday from a low passing under us Saturday but with onshore winds.

Longer term, a strong node of the Long Wave Trough moving in from the west over the weekend may produce some better W/SW swell next week but we'll look into this more Wednesday.