Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 24th July)

Best Days: Tuesday, Thursday, Friday morning

Recap

Fun clean waves to 1-2ft Saturday with a new S/SW swell, fading back to a tiny 1ft on Sunday.

Today a new S/SW groundswell has filled in, offering 2-3ft waves across Clifton with offshore winds, while a stronger polar front pushing up and under is should see more consistent sets to 3ft into this afternoon as winds hold from the W/NW.

This week and weekend (Jul 25 - 30)

The frontal system currently pushing up and into us should keep good 3ft waves hitting Clifton tomorrow morning, with the easing trend slowed by a trailing fetch of weaker polar SW winds stalling to our south through tomorrow and and Wednesday morning.

This should keep S/SW swell coming in at 2-3ft Wednesday morning, easing off slowly Thursday from 2ft.

Conditions look great tomorrow with a N/NW tending W/NW breeze, while Wednesday is dicey with an onshore S/SE change expected to move through just after dawn.

A return to offshores is expected on Thursday, persisting into the afternoon from the N'th as a new pulse of S'ly swell fills in.

This will be generated by a final intensification of S'ly winds in our southern swell window tomorrow and should kick most spots back to 2-3ft. Easing surf from 2ft is then expected Friday with NW winds.

Saturday and most of Sunday are due to be tiny, but later in the day Sunday a vigorous mid-latitude frontal progression is due to push east across us.

A quick burst of strong W/SW winds may kick up some late swell to 1-2ft, easing from a similar size Monday, but we'll have a closer look at this Wednesday.