Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Wednesday 22nd February)

Best Days: Early Saturday, Sunday morning

Recap

A good new S/SE swell filled in yesterday but with average winds, with this morning seeing cleaner conditions as the swell eased back from 2-3ft.

This week and weekend (Feb 23 – 26)

The low responsible for yesterday's and this morning's S/SE swell moved out of our swell window yesterday and with this, there's expected to be no size left tomorrow, with tiny fading 1ft sets under an offshore wind.

The surf will remain tiny until later Friday when the first pulse of new W/SW groundswell is due.

This is being generated by a broad frontal system that's currently south of WA and the Bight.

The better swell producer is the secondary front firing up this evening, projecting a slightly better fetch of W/SW gales closer towards us before moving under us in a much weaker form Friday.

We should see the first swell reaching 1-2ft across Clifton later Friday but with onshore SW winds.

The secondary swell for Saturday is much better, coming in at 2ft to occasionally 3ft at its peak through the day, and then easing from 2ft+ Sunday morning.

Conditions Saturday should be clean early with a W/NW offshore, tending SW mid-late morning, with NW offshores Sunday morning ahead of SE sea breezes.

From here on there's nothing major on the cards at all for next week, so make the most of the coming swell.