Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 6th February)

Best Days: Friday mid-late morning, next week

Recap

Clean 1-1.5ft waves on Saturday morning with an easing W/SW swell, while Sunday a new S/SE groundswell provided some good options at more exposed breaks.

Today the swell was hanging in at 1-1.5ft, but with the westerly winds, protected locations were best.

This week and weekend (Feb 7 - 10)

A weak front passing under us today will fail to generate any decent swell at all, with tiny fading 1ft waves expected through tomorrow with a morning offshore.

From here on there's nothing significant for the rest of the week until Friday with tiny fading waves Wednesday, flat Thursday.

A trough moving through Thursday will bring an onshore change and a small spike in SW swell Friday.

The swell was looking a little better but the latest updates have a short-lived fetch of W/SW gales through our southern swell window Thursday morning and afternoon.

We should see the swell kick to 1-2ft from this low on Friday (tiny early) with a morning offshore ahead of SE sea breezes.

This weekend onwards (Feb 11 onwards)

The swell is expected to fade from a tiny 1-1.5ft Saturday with offshore persisting most of the day,

Now, more importantly is some better polar frontal activity due over the weekend and into early next week.

We might see a stronger cold outbreak generating some more significant swell, but we'll look at this again Wednesday.