Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 2nd October)

Best Days: Tuesday, dawn Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday morning

Recap

Building surf through Saturday, coming in at 2-3ft during the morning with bumpy conditions, improving later.

Sunday saw the surf easing from the 3ft range and conditions were a bit bumpy at exposed breaks, better in more protected spots.

Today the swell was cleaner and hanging in at 3ft with some reinforcing W/SW groundswell, generated by a great fetch of W/NW-W gales spreading out through our western swell window over the weekend.

This week and next weekend (Oct 3 - 8)

We should of seen the swell strengthen a little further this afternoon across Clifton with occasional 4ft sets, linked to the strongest part of W/SW groundswell filling in.

This swell should start to ease into tomorrow from 3ft during the morning, a touch smaller through the afternoon and back from 2ft+ Wednesday morning.

N/NW tending light variable W/NW winds will create great conditions tomorrow, while dawn Wednesday a W/NW breeze is expected, giving into a S/SE change mid-morning as a trough moves across us.

This trough will actually deepen while stalling across us on Thursday as the swell hold around 1-2ft (due to a reinforcing W/SW swell - right), with it due to move east across us early Friday morning, bringing gusty S/SW winds and a poor quality S'ly windswell.

Into the weekend the windswell is expected to fade quickly as winds swing back offshore but from the N/NE, holding Sunday with tiny waves.

Longer term a strong mid-latitude front pushing across us early next week should generate some new W/SW swell, but more on this Wednesday.