Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Wednesday 20 April)

Best Days: Saturday, Sunday morning

Recap

Tiny fading waves from 1-1.5ft yesterday morning, while today we're back to the real small stuff.

This week and weekend (Apr 21 - 24)

Tomorrow is due to remain tiny, with a very inconsistent long-range W/SW groundswell hardly due to budge above 1ft+ on the sets. Early NW winds will create clean conditions for beginners ahead of an onshore change through the morning.

Friday is then due to be tiny with leftover amounts of swell.

Our SW swell for Saturday is still on track, with an initial zonally aligned and relatively weak polar front currently moving in from the west due to produce an active sea state for a secondary strengthening polar front to move over.

This secondarym front isn't due to be as consolidated with a weaker fetch of strong to gale-force SW winds being produced over an already active sea state.

This should produce a good SW groundswell for Saturday, building to 2-3ft through the day before easing off quickly from 2ft Sunday.

Winds Saturday are looking favourable most of the day, tending W/NW from dawn and persisting into the afternoon, with Sunday seeing NW tending variable breezes.

Longer term the storm track looks to remain poor for us, with only a fleeting pulse of W'ly groundswell due Tuesday/Wednesday from a very intense but south-east tracking mid-latitude low.

We'll have a closer look at this Friday though.