Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 1st June)

Best Days: Early Wednesday, early Thursday for a fading small swell, next week onwards

Recap

Great waves Saturday with a clean solid easing swell from 3ft with Sunday coming in a touch smaller to 2-3ft. A further kick in size was seen through the day though as winds tended onshore late afternoon.

This morning the swell was on the ease from the 3-4ft range under early variable winds that swung onshore around 8am.

This week (Jun 1 – 5)

There should still be plenty of waves on offer through tomorrow and Wednesday, generated on the backside of the strong polar frontal system responsible for yesterday afternoon's and this morning's swell.

Winds will be the main issue though with a fresh onshore SW'ly due through tomorrow, while Wednesday morning should be similar to this morning with a lighter variable W'ly at dawn before tending back to the SW through the day. Size wise, Clifton should ease from 2-3ft tomorrow, with less consistent 2ft sets Wednesday as a new inconsistent SW groundswell pulses through the afternoon.

This swell is then due to ease into Thursday from 1-2ft under N/NW tending variable winds.

Friday looks tiny.

This weekend onwards (Jun 6 onwards)

Into the weekend and early next week we'll see a strong node of the Long Wave Trough move in from the west bringing a series of vigorous frontal systems through our western swell window and pulses of W/SW groundswell.

Initially a small and very west swell is due later Saturday, likely only to 2ft max on the sets, with a better and larger surf due into next week, but the models are still divergent on the evolution of each frontal system. Therefore we'll review this again on Wednesday to get the specifics.