Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Friday 10th June)

Best Days: Sunday onwards

Recap

Tiny bumpy 1ft leftovers yesterday across the South Arm, while today a mid-period pulse in new swell has offered some OK clean 2ft sets.

This weekend and next week (Jun 11 – 17)

Our strong pulse of swell over the weekend is still looking good but it looks to have a bit more west in it now. A healthy fetch of W/SW gales are currently being produced through our western swell window and this will push across us tomorrow morning.

The trailing fetch of better aligned SW winds now are weaker, resulting in the main swell tomorrow being W/SW, with a reinforcing SW pulse for Sunday.

Clifton should build from 2ft early to a larger 3-4ft later in the day, easing back from the 3ft+ range Sunday morning.

Conditions tomorrow will be poor with a gusty W/SW change at dawn (outside chance of it being W'ly), tending more SW through the day.

Sunday will be better under offshore NW tending W/NW winds.

Into next week our good run of swell is still on track, with a series of strong polar fronts due to move through our swell window from this weekend.

Initially some broad and strong pre-frontal W/NW gales will keep Clifton kicking at an easy 2ft+ Monday. A better aligned W/SW fetch should then produce a stronger pulse Tuesday, building to 3-4ft into the afternoon.

This should ease a touch from 3ft+ Wednesday morning ahead of a stronger and better SW groundswell pulse Thursday/Friday from a tighter stronger polar low. We'll have another look at this system on Monday though.

Conditions are looking great with generally offshore NW winds each morning, only giving into an onshore change Tuesday (W/NW for the remainder). Have a check back here Monday for confirmation on this though. Have a great weekend!