Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Wednesday 10th August)

Best Days: Later Thursday, Sunday and Monday

Recap

Nothing to surf the last couple of days with tiny conditions yesterday and this morning.

This week and weekend (Aug 11 - 14)

Later today we may see some tiny new lines of infrequent W/SW groundswell, but our better W/SW groundswell for tomorrow is the one to aim for.

This swell has been generated the last couple of days and is continuing to do so today by a fetch of W/SW gales projecting towards us south of the Bight.

We should see a fun W/SW swell building to 1-2ft through the day tomorrow with morning NW winds, shifting W/SW around midday and hopefully back to the W/NW late.

Easing 1-1.5ft sets are then due Friday with N/NW breezes.

Tiny surf is expected Saturday, but our W/SW groundswell for Sunday has been upgraded a touch.

This will be produced by a strong mid-latitude frontal progression developing south-west of WA, rolling east through the end of this week and Saturday, generating various fetches of W/NW and W/SW gales over the top of each other.

This stimulation of an active sea state will help generate some good W/SW groundswell for Sunday, building to a good 2-3ft across Clifton through the day, easing back from a similar size Monday morning.

All day offshore W/NW tending NW winds are due Sunday, with NW winds Monday as the swell eases.

Into the rest of the week, smaller pulses of W/SW groundswell are due to keep Clifton around 1-2ft with generally favourable winds, but more on this Friday.