Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 29th February)

Best Days: Tuesday, Friday morning beginners, later Sunday onwards

Recap

Good clean 2ft waves Saturday with a reinforcing W/SW swell along with favourable winds. Sunday held a fun size to 2ft which was a little unexpected, ahead of a new kick in groundswell through the afternoon.

This swell has peaked this morning to a good 2-3ft across Clifton under morning offshores. A new S'ly swell kicked hard during the day, and this was generated by the fetch outlined below.

This week (Mar 1 - 4)

The strong frontal system linked to today's increase in SW groundswell, produced a short-lived fetch of S'ly gales on its tail while moving under us last night.

This generated a fresh pulse of S'ly swell today, with it due to ease back from the 2ft range tomorrow morning across Clifton, tiny into the afternoon and Wednesday.

Conditions are looking good for most breaks with a moderate to fresh N/NW tending N/NE breeze tomorrow, and then NW tending W/NW winds Wednesday.

The rest of the week isn't looking too interesting, with a weak and unfavourably tracking front dipping east-southeast from under WA due to aim a fetch of W/SW winds through our western swell window before dropping further down towards the polar shelf.

This should generate a small to tiny W/SW swell for later Thursday and early Friday to 1-1.5ft. Friday will be the cleanest with offshores.

This weekend onwards (Mar 5 onwards)

Longer term we've got some good, persistent and strong polar frontal activity due through our south-western swell window from later this week into next.

This should produce good pulses of SW groundswell from later Sunday through most of next week, but have a check back here Wednesday for more on this.