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

Best Days: Exposed breaks tomorrow, late morning Thursday, beginners Friday morning, Monday morning

Recap

A good clean fun easing swell from 2-3ft Saturday morning, smaller into Sunday as onshore winds moved in mid-morning.

Today the surf was tiny along with onshore winds.

This week and weekend (Mar 7 - 12)

A new SW groundswell is due this afternoon to 1-2ft, but with these onshore winds, it's not too flash.

This swell should ease back from a similar size tomorrow morning but conditions will be a little average with a light E/NE wind, increasing through the day. This will favour spots away from Clifton.

Tiny surf is then expected into Wednesday, while our new SW groundswell for Thursday is still on track.

The low generating this swell is OK but not epic, and with this the timing has been delayed a little.

A good fetch of W/NW gales are being generated along the polar shelf through our south-west swell window, and the swell should arrive mid-late morning Thursday, peaking through the afternoon to 2ft on the sets.

Winds look favourable until early afternoon, which is good, so a midday surf might be the go.

Friday is expected to be tiny and easing from 1-1.5ft with a morning offshore breeze.

The weekend is looking tiny until a new SW groundswell kicks later Sunday, followed by a bigger pulse Monday morning.

The first increase will be produced by another very similar polar low to the one linked to Thursday's swell, with a small 1-2ft sets expected late in the day Saturday, and early Monday.

A stronger but short-lived low more north in latitude will produce Monday's swell with better sets just over 2ft expected.

Winds look onshore later Sunday, but NW offshores should be seen Monday morning.

Beyond this small pulses of W/SW swell are likely next week, but more on this Friday.