Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Friday 6th January)

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Best Days: Saturday morning, Wednesday morning, Thursday morning

Recap

Tiny waves yesterday and this morning, but a new SW groundswell should be showing across the coast although SE sea breezes have kicked in.

This weekend (Jan 7 - 8)

This afternoon's kick in SW groundswell is due to reach 2ft+ by dark across Clifton, and we'll see the swell easing off through tomorrow from a small 1-2ft.

A light N/NW breeze should create clean conditions through the morning, but SE sea breezes will develop through the afternoon.

Tiny surf is then due Sunday.

Next week onwards (Jan 9 onwards)

Tiny surf should continue into early next week as some good W'ly swell pushes past us both Monday and Tuesday.

This will be created by a stalling front producing strong W/NW winds through our western swell window.

Tuesday will offer the most size with tiny 1ft+ waves likely for beginners.

Our best source of swell will be an intense low racing in from the west Tuesday, generating a tight fetch of gale to severe-gale W/SW winds through our western swell window, passing under us Tuesday afternoon.

We will likely see a late kick in W/SW swell to possibly 1-2ft, peaking Wednesday morning to 2ft, easing through the day.

Some small W/SW swell should persist into Thursday from a weak trailing front moving up towards us Wednesday, keeping 2ft sets hitting Clifton, smaller Friday.

On the backside of this front we may see some S'ly swell produced for next weekend, but more on this Friday.