Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 23rd January)

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Best Days: Wednesday morning, Sunday morning

Recap

A small SE groundswell to an inconsistent but fun 1-2ft on Saturday and Sunday, fading back today to the 1ft+ range.

This week and weekend (Jan 24 - 29)

Besides on final pulse of SE groundswell tomorrow afternoon through Thursday (1ft max) we should see some small W/SW swell building through tomorrow afternoon, easing off into Wednesday.

The size of this swell has been upgraded a touch with a strengthening front due to produce a broad fetch of strong W/SW winds below us, followed by a less favourable W/NW aligned front Wednesday.

An afternoon kick to 1-2ft is due but with strong W/SW winds, easing from a similar size early Wednesday with offshore winds.

Persistent but weak and less than favourably aligned mid-latitude frontal activity should keep 1ft+ surf hitting Clifton through the rest of the week, with some better size for the weekend.

The weekend's swell will be produced by a slightly stronger mid-latitude front moving in and under us Saturday afternoon, aiming a fetch of strong W/SW winds through our western swell window again.

This swell looks to only reach 1-2ft through Sunday with morning offshores, easing into Monday.

Longer term besides another small W/SW groundswell Tuesday there's nothing too major on the cards unfortunately.