Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Wednesday 25th February)

Best Days: Thursday morning for beginners, Friday morning for a touch more size

Recap

Yesterday saw inconsistent but clean 1-2ft waves across Clifton through the morning, while today the swell is easing from 1-1.5ft under early offshores before a fresher NE'ly kicked in.

This week and weekend (Feb 26 – Mar 1)

We've got a very slow period ahead across the South Arm with tiny clean beginner waves due through tomorrow, while Friday will should see a slight kick in size to 1-1.5ft with early light variable winds ahead of afternoon sea breezes.

There's nothing to get excited about over the weekend with tiny surf due to continue, while an onshore change Sunday should see a slight kick in windswell through the afternoon.

From Tuesday we should start to see the outlook become more favourable as a strengthening node (peak) of the Long Wave Trough pushes in from the west over the weekend and across us Tuesday/Wednesday.

With this we should see the westerly storm track in the Southern Ocean become more active with a series of strengthening polar fronts due to fire up in our western swell window initially and then hopefully our south-west swell window mid-week.

Some good W/SW and then SW groundswell should result that at this stage looks to peak Wednesday/Thursday, but check back here on Friday for the latest on this.