Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Wednesday 16th November)

Best Days: Swell magnets Thursday morning, Saturday late morning onwards, Sunday morning, Monday

Recap

Tiny clean waves yesterday, with an increase in swell today but with onshore winds.

This week and weekend (Nov 17 - 20)

Today's swell will unfortunately easing back quickly overnight leaving tiny waves tomorrow (1-1.5ft if we're lucky), but conditions will be clean with a N'ly offshore wind.

Into Friday near flat surf is expected, but a front pushing across us may generate 1ft of windswell through the afternoon with W'ly winds.

Our new swell for the weekend is still on track with an intense but short-lived low forming south-west of us tomorrow evening due to aim a fetch of gale to severe-gale W/SW winds in our south-western swell window.

A good pulse of SW groundswell should be generated, filling in Saturday and coming in at 2-3ft across Clifton when it peaks midday/afternoon.

The swell should ease through Sunday but a secondary fetch of less favourable W'ly winds through our western swell window should keep 2ft sets hitting the coast early, smaller later.

Winds on Saturday should persist from the W/NW nearly all day, with a morning NW'ly Sunday ahead of SE sea breezes.

Into Monday a good pulse of S'ly swell is due from a great fetch of S/SE gales wrapping around the southern flank of the polar low generating Saturday's swell.

Solid 2-3ft sets are due across Clifton with more size at exposed breaks under strengthening N/NE winds.

We'll have a closer look at this Friday though.

Longer term there's nothing too major on the cards until later next week/weekend, but more on this Friday.