Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Wednesday 26th August)

Best Days: Thursday morning, late Friday and early Saturday

Recap

Small leftover 1-2ft waves yesterday morning with offshores, while this morning a strong SW groundswell was on the build with clean 3ft sets that should of built to a larger 3-4ft+ through the day, and Cape Sorell readings fall in line with this.

This week and weekend (Aug 27 - 30)

Today's strong kick in SW groundswell will ease back into tomorrow but steady as a reinforcing pulse fills in, keeping 3ft sets hitting Clifton before then easing further into Friday morning.

Conditions should be clean with a morning NW breeze ahead of a shift to the S'th through the day.

Friday and Saturday's kick in S/SE swell is still moving around heaps with the polar front that was expected to push up into the south-east corner of the state even up until 6 hours ago now due to stall just a bit too far west and now project towards the south-west corner of the state.

This will limit the swell from this system, with a late pulse to the 3ft range but on the upside of the low pushing west, morning S/SW winds due to tend variable late in the day. So aim for a late paddle for some fun peaky S'ly swell.

The swell will drop quickly into Saturday though, easing from the 3ft range Saturday morning but with early variable tending SE winds.

This SE flow will be due to a developing south-east fetch east of us through the weekend and this should produce building levels of SE swell through later Saturday to 2-3ft and then easing through Sunday from a similar size range (bigger at spots exposed to the SE swell).

Winds look to remain poor but and fresh from the E/SE.

Into next week, a very inconsistent long-range W/SW groundswell is due from the southern Indian Ocean, generated in our very far swell window.

This swell won't carry any major size and will be extremely inconsistent, peaking Monday morning to an infrequent 2ft on the sets across Clifton before easing into the afternoon and further Tuesday as E'ly winds persist.

Longer term we may see some better groundswell energy into the next weekend, but we'll review this Friday.