Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Friday 12th August)

Best Days: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday

Recap

A tiny start to yesterday but a new swell should of hit 1-2ft through the day, with the remnants of this swell easing back from 1-1.5ft this morning.

This weekend and next week (Aug 13 - 19)

There'll be nothing left in the tank tomorrow with tiny surf across Clifton.

Sunday's new W/SW swell is looking good, with another reinforcing pulse now on the cards for late in the day Monday, fading quickly Tuesday.

Sunday's swell is being generated by a vigorous mid-latitude frontal system currently pushing in from under WA with a pre-frontal fetch of severe-gale W/NW winds moving on an already active sea state.

This fetch will dissolve through tomorrow, only to be followed by a post-frontal W/SW fetch right under us during Saturday evening.

A mix of W/SW groundswells will result, filling in Sunday and peaking through the day to a good 3ft across Clifton, smaller into Monday to 2ft+.

Directly on the tail of this frontal progression a deep and powerful low will develop with a fetch of storm-force W'ly winds being projected east-southeast through our swell window.

This isn't ideal but the strength of the low is, and we should see a long-period W/SW groundswell from this low arriving just before dark Monday, kicking back to 3ft and then easing quickly from 2-3ft at dawn Tuesday.

Conditions through this period of swell will be good with W/NW tending NW winds Sunday, persistent NW winds Monday and N/NW winds most of Tuesday ahead of an overnight change.

Small levels of leftover W/SW swell are due Wednesday with tiny surf into the end of the week with funky winds. Therefore make the most of the surf from Sunday through Tuesday. Have a great weekend!