Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Wednesday 13th April)

Best Days: Thursday morning, Friday for small waves, Sunday morning, Monday morning

Recap

Good clean 3ft waves across the South Arm yesterday morning after a strong pulse through the day Monday, but winds quickly shifted onshore mid-late morning.

Today the swell was smaller and around 2ft but clean until late morning sea breezes kicked in.

This week and weekend (Apr 14 - 17)

Tomorrow's inconsistent SW groundswell is still looking good, but you'll have to be patient with very long waits between sets.

Clifton should see inconsistent 2ft+ sets tomorrow morning, easing through the day with N/NW tending N/NE winds ahead of SE sea breezes.

Friday's reinforcing swell now looks to be smaller with only 1-2ft sets across Clifton but under all day offshore NW winds.

The weekend's swell however has been upgraded, with an already healthy and sustained polar low moving in from the west now due strengthen directly south-west of us during Friday, aiming an additional fetch of severe-gale to possibly storm-force W/SW winds through our south-western swell window.

A moderate to large sized SW groundswell should result, building later Saturday to the 2-3ft range by dark but with onshore W/SW winds, peaking through Sunday afternoon to a strong 3-4ft+.

Conditions are looking decent Saturday morning with a NW-W/NW offshore, tending W/SW through the day.

Monday will then be great as the swell eases back from 3ft or so under NW offshores ahead of afternoon sea breezes.

Longer term there's nothing significant at all for the rest of next week as the storm track takes and unfavourable alignment. Therefore make the most of the coming surf!