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

Best Days: Tuesday morning, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday mornings

Recap

A building SW groundswell Saturday with small 2ft waves early before the onshore hit. The swell eased back Sunday from a clean 3ft with today holding around 2-3ft under offshores.

This week and weekend (Jun 14 – 19)

Our great run of swell is tracking nicely, with a flurry of pre-frontal W/NW gales generating a good SW groundswell pulse for tomorrow.

We should see Clifton building to a strong 3-4ft through the day, peaking overnight and easing back from 3ft+ Wednesday morning.

Conditions will be good with an offshore NW tending W/NW breeze tomorrow morning, giving into an onshore change early-mid afternoon. Wednesday morning will be clean again with a NW offshore persisting all day.

Into Thursday a strong long-period SW groundswell is due from a very strong polar low moving in from the west over the coming days.

A pre-frontal fetch of severe-gale W/NW winds will set in motion an active sea state for stronger storm-force W'ly winds to move over, producing a large long-period SW groundswell for Thursday.

Clifton should kick to a strong 3-5ft through the day with offshore N/NW winds persisting all day, while an onshore change is due Friday as the swell eases.

Into the weekend and early next week we'll continue to receive strong pulses of SW groundswell as polar fronts continue to move through our swell window. These swells look to be more in the 3ft+ range, but more on this Wednesday.