Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Wednesday 25th January)

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Best Days: Beginners over the coming days, Sunday morning, Tuesday, Wednesday week

Recap

Yesterday started tiny ahead of a building W/SW swell through the day, peaking overnight and easing from 1-1.5ft this morning.

This week and weekend (Jan 26 - 29)

Tiny amounts of swell to 1ft to possibly 1.5ft are due to continue across Clifton over the coming days, persisting due to continued weak mid-latitude frontal activity through our western swell window.

Each front is weak and the fetches unfavourably aligned, with similar sized surf continuing into Saturday.

Winds look favourable each morning, with onshores or sea breezes into the afternoons.

The best pulse of W/SW swell looks to fill in Sunday produced by a better aligned but weak and persistent fetch of W/SW winds moving in from the west Friday and Saturday.

Better 1-2ft waves are due Sunday and with a morning offshore ahead of afternoon sea breezes.

Next week onwards (Jan 30 onwards)

Sunday's swell will ease off into Monday but we're looking at a better swell through Tuesday.

An intense low developing south-west of Tassie and just in our swell window is forecast to travel west while generating a fetch of W'ly gales, dipping slightly to the south and more into our swell window early next week.

While not ideally aligned, the persistent and strong nature of the low should help generate a good W/SW groundswell for Tuesday, building from 1-2ft early, to 2-3ft into the mid-late afternoon with winds possibly holding from the west all day.

A peak is due overnight, easing back from 2ft Wednesday morning. More on this Friday though.