Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Wednesday 21st December)

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Best Days: Early Thursday

Recap

Small 1-2ft waves out of the south yesterday morning, while today a tiny bumpy windswell was on the build, with not much size early, but 1-2ft sets are due into this afternoon.

This week and weekend (Dec 22 - 25)

Currently a weakening front is passing under us, and the small lift in swell due through today will ease back through tomorrow.

Hopefully there'll still be 1-2ft sets on offer early but it might be more around 1-1.5ft after this morning's reports.

Conditions will be cleaner with a light NW offshore wind and afternoon SE sea breeze.

From Friday tiny waves are then due with no love due over the Christmas period.

Monday afternoon a very inconsistent long-period W'ly groundswell is due, but the low generating the swell will be too far north and out of our main swell window to generate anything above 1ft.

A S'ly change will create poor conditions in any case.

Next week onwards (Dec 27 onwards)

Monday afternoon's change will be linked to a trough moving across us and stalling low to our south-east, with a fetch of strong S/SE winds being aimed into us through Monday evening and Tuesday morning.

An onshore S/SE swell to 1-2ft is expected, fading Wednesday as winds swing more NE.

Longer term besides some small to tiny E/SE swell there's nothing major on the cards.