Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 20th July)

Best Days: Tuesday

Recap

Solid kick in swell to 3-4ft Saturday (a touch under the expected 3-5ft) with early W'ly winds, while Sunday was clean all day as the swell eased back from 3ft on the sets.

Today the surf was back to a tiny 1-1.5ft and clean all day, ideal for beginners.

This week (Jul 21 – 24)

Tomorrow will be the day to surf this week, with a new and short-lived pulse of SW groundswell from an intense but unfavourably tracking polar low through our swell window over the weekend.

Satellite observations are quite impressive and I believe we should see 2-3ft sets across Clifton tomorrow morning under N/NW tending N'ly winds.

Come Wednesday the surf will be near flat, and there's nothing else expected through the end of the week with the storm track being too far north and west in nature to generate any meaningful swell for our region.

This weekend onwards (Jul 25 onwards)

The weekend is due to remain tiny to flat, but a strong cold outbreak is due overnight Sunday, with a vigorous low expected to project a fetch of severe-gale S/SW winds into us Monday, kicking up a sizey stormy swell. We'll have a closer look at this Wednesday though.