Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Wednesday 19th April)

Best Days: Thursday, Sunday, Monday

Recap

Clean fun 1-2ft sets yesterday morning, with a new swell building into the afternoon ahead of today's large and powerful number, coming in on forecast across the region. Conditions were clean and the waves pumping at spots handling the size, with a drop into the afternoon with weak sea breezes.

This week and weekend (Apr 20 - 23)

Today's swell will ease overnight and further tomorrow from 2ft to occasionally 3ft across Clifton with good conditions for most of the day.

Friday is looking tiny, but into the afternoon a slight increase in swell is due, produced by a mid-latitude front that's dipped south-east to the polar shelf into our swell window, generating a polar fetch of W/SW gales.

This should produce a kick to 1-2ft later in the day, easing back from a tiny 1-1.5ft Sunday.

Sea breezes look as if they'll be in by Friday afternoon, with offshore breezes Saturday morning.

Our better SW groundswell for Sunday afternoon is still looking good with another mid-latitude front dipping south-east from under WA due to generate a stronger and longer-lived fetch of severe-gale to storm-force W/NW winds through our south-west swell window.

The swell should arrive through the early morning and building rapidly to 2-3ft across Clifton with a morning offshore and ahead of afternoon sea breezes.

Clean easing surf from 2ft is expected on Monday, smaller Tuesday.

Longer term there's some great swell on the cards for early to mid next week with a vigorous polar frontal progression firing up to our south-west, but more on this Friday.