Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Wednesday 4th January)

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Best Days: Friday afternoon selected spots, Saturday morning, later next week

Recap

A fun pulse of SE swell yesterday morning with an offshore wind before S/SE sea breezes kicked in. Today the swell was back a tiny 1ft with a mix of fading SE swell and new inconsistent W/SW groundswell.

This week and weekend (Jan 5 - 8)

Tomorrow will remain tiny, but our new pulse of SW groundswell due for Friday/Saturday is still on track.

Currently a relatively weak polar low is generating a fetch of strong to gale-force W'ly winds through our south-western swell window.

The low will project slightly towards New Zealand, favourably through our swell window, and small to tiny waves early in the day should kick to a strong 2ft+ through the afternoon.

The peak looks to be into the evening now and smaller easing 1-2ft waves are due Saturday, tiny into Sunday.

Winds on Friday won't be ideal with a light morning NE wind expected to freshen from the E/NE through the day. Saturday will be cleaner with a N'ly offshore, freshening again from the E/NE into the afternoon.

Next week onwards (Jan 9 onwards)

The surf will remain tiny through early next week, but into Thursday a good sized W/SW groundswell should develop, produced by a slow moving, strong and broad frontal system drifting in from the west.

Hopefully if the forecast holds we'll see 2-3ft surf, but more on this Friday.