Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 10th August)

Best Days: Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday

Recap

Fun clean 2-3ft waves with an easing S/SW groundswell Saturday, becoming smaller and dropping from 1-2ft yesterday with better winds for more exposed locations.

Today the surf started tiny, but an inconsistent W/SW groundswell should of built to 1-2ft through the day today.

This week (Aug 11 - 14)

This afternoon's increase in infrequent W/SW groundswell is due to ease through tomorrow, back from 1-1.5ft or so with offshore winds.

Wednesday will then be tiny and clean, with the next decent swell due through Thursday. This will be generated by a small but strong polar front pushing up towards us tomorrow and Wednesday, generating a fetch of strong to gale-force W/SW winds.

A fun SW groundswell should result, peaking Thursday afternoon to 2-3ft across Clifton and then holding 2ft Friday. Winds Thursday look favourable for most of the day with a NW tending W/NW breeze and then NW tending W/SW breezes Friday.

This weekend onwards (Aug 15 onwards)

A fun W/SW groundswell is due on Saturday across the region, generated by a vigorous polar frontal system forming in the south-eastern Indian Ocean today, producing a pre-frontal fetch of W/NW gales and then post-frontal fetch of W/SW gales.

This should produce a moderate sized W/SW groundswell, peaking through the day Saturday to a good 3ft or so across Clifton.

A couple of secondary and stronger pulses of W/SW groundswell are then due Sunday and Monday from stronger polar fronts firing up just within our swell window. The strongest due Monday looks to come in at 3-5ft, but we'll review this again Wednesday.