Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Wednesday 14th September)

Best Days: Friday, Saturday morning, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday

Recap

Clean fun 2-3ft waves yesterday morning before onshore winds kicked in, while today the swell is around a similar size but with a less favourable NE wind early, since swinging onshore.

This week and weekend (Sep 15 - 18)

Our secondary strong pulse of SW groundswell for tomorrow morning is still expected to 3ft across Clifton, but an intense low to our north-west is expected to drift south-east bringing onshore S/SE tending S/SW winds across the coast.

Friday will be much better as winds swing N/NW with easing 2-3ft sets.

Into the weekend the swell shouldn't drop below 1-2ft as persistent polar frontal activity through our south-western swell window keeps the coast active.

On Sunday a slightly stronger increase in size is expected, generated by a distant polar frontal progression that's currently south-west of WA.This system has been traversing the southern Indian Ocean and is now weakening to the south-west of WA, with the swell due to peak around an inconsistent 2ft Sunday across Clifton.

There'll also be some smaller more consistent mid-period energy from the remnants of the front passing across us during the weekend.

Winds look good and offshore Saturday morning ahead of a W/SW change, with Sunday seeing W/NW winds most of the day.

Longer term there's plenty more small W/SW swells due into early next week (one for Monday from another distant polar front), with a possible low forming off our coast giving us a kick in S/SE swell, but more on this Friday.