Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 18th January)

Best Days: Thursday morning, Friday morning, Saturday morning

Recap

Tiny waves the last few days in the 1-1.5ft range with clean conditions each morning.

This week (Jan 19 – 22)

We've got some fun SW groundswell on the cards this week, but before that tomorrow will be tiny with W/NW winds ahead of SE sea breezes.

Into Wednesday a good new SW groundswell is due to fill in ahead of a peak Wednesday.

A pre-frontal fetch of W/NW gales has generated Wednesday's increase, with Clifton due to build to 1-2ft later in the day, while a post-frontal fetch of W/SW gales that are currently south-west of WA, will generate a stronger pulse of swell for Thursday to a better 2ft+ across Clifton.

Behind this though another strong polar front is due to move in, generating a secondary good pulse of SW groundswell for Friday to 2ft, with the odd bigger set possible, easing back from 1-2ft Saturday morning.

Conditions are looking great each morning, with NW offshores ahead of afternoon SE sea breezes both Thursday and Friday, with all day offshore NW tending W/NW winds Saturday.

Longer term we may see some weak polar frontal activity fire up below us into early next week, but check back here Wednesday for the latest on this.