Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 27th April)

Best Days: Every morning over the coming week, Friday afternoon, Saturday morning

Recap

Poor onshore and tiny waves Saturday with a new swell Sunday to 3ft on the sets under offshore winds, opening up a few options.

Today the swell was back to a smaller and bumpy 2ft with an early W/NW'ly that then swung back to the SW mid-morning.

This week (Apr 28 – May 1)

Today's swell should still be around 2ft tomorrow morning and we should see an early W/NW wind again before onshores kick in around 10am. So aim for the early to mid-morning surf.

The waves shouldn't drop below 1-2ft through the rest of the week as a series of unfavourably positioned but broad fronts skirt around the bottom of a strong blocking high moving slowly across the country.

Each front will generate broad fetches of W/NW gales, with fun levels of SW groundswell spreading up and into us.

Into Friday the strongest pulse of swell is due as a polar low generates a fetch of severe-gale to storm-force W/NW winds through our southern swell window.

With this we should see Clifton build to 2ft to possibly 3ft through the afternoon under N/NW tending N'ly winds, so this is a good day to pencil a surf in.

This weekend onwards (May 2 onwards)

Friday's swell should ease back from the 2ft range Saturday with early offshore winds ahead of a gusty W/SW change.

Longer term there's nothing too significant expect as the westerly storm track focussed itself up towards WA. This means smaller and inconsistent W'ly swells into next week, but more on this on Wednesday.