Poor outlook, onshore south-east swell for the weekend

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Craig Brokensha (Craig)

Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Wednesday 9th November)

Best Days: No good days until at least Tuesday

Recap

Small clean 1-2ft waves yesterday morning, with a kick in size through the morning as a new W/SW swell filled in.

Today the swell was easing back form 1-1.5ft with clean conditions again before sea breezes kicked in.

This week and weekend (Nov 10 - 13)

The surf will continue to ease through tomorrow leaving tiny waves across the coast with morning offshores tomorrow and then more variable breezes Friday.

The deepening low that's expected to form to our west is still on track, and this will see a fetch of strong E'ly winds aimed across us Saturday, tending more E/SE Sunday and into our swell window.

This should produce building levels of SE swell Sunday to 2ft+ across Clifton but with poor and strong E'ly winds.

As the low starts to move east into Monday the fetch will swing more SE while weakening, but plenty of swell to 3ft expected. Winds will remain poor though and fresh to strong from the S/SE.

Easing surf should be seen Tuesday from 1-2ft or so as winds swing westerly. This looks like the only real window of decent surf.

After this tiny W/SW swells are due for the rest of next week, but more on this Friday.