Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Friday 15th July)

Best Days: Saturday morning, Tuesday morning, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

Recap

Large levels of W/SW groundswell persisted yesterday in the 5ft range, but the direction failed to fire up selected locations, while more bouncy spots were the pick.

Today the swell was easing from 3-4ft and will drop steadily out through the day.

This weekend and next week (Jul 16- 22)

Our recent strong W/SW groundswell event will continue to drop into the weekend with fading 1-2ft sets tomorrow, tiny into Sunday. Conditions are looking clean for the most part with offshore W/NW-NW winds tomorrow and NW breezes Sunday.

Into early to mid-next week there's nothing significant expected across the coast with pulses of W/SW groundswell from Sunday through Tuesday being generated too far north and out of our swell window.

Tiny 1ft peelers may be seen across Clifton for beginners through this period, bumping up to 1-2ft Tuesday morning from a strong cold front passing under us.

Of greater importance is some fun W/SW groundswell from a vigorous polar frontal system firing up south-west of WA and tracking east through our swell window early next week.

A pre-frontal fetch of W/NW gales will be followed by a better aligned and stronger severe-gale W/SW fetch, producing two pulses of W/SW groundswell.

The first for Wednesday morning looks to be around 2ft+, with the better pulse through the afternoon with 3ft sets.

2-3ft sets should continue through Thursday before easing back into Friday. Conditions are looking great for this swell with persistent NW-N/NW winds. We'll have a closer look at this Monday, have a great weekend!