Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Wednesday 4th October)

Best Days: Thursday at more exposed breaks, desperate surfers Saturday morning

Recap

Clean fun waves with a good dropping swell through yesterday, while this morning an onshore change moved through right on dawn creating terrible conditions.

This week and next weekend (Oct 5 - 8)

The swell should hang in at 1-2ft tomorrow as a reinforcing W/SW swell fills in, generated by a relatively weak but favourably tracking polar front through our swell window the last couple of days.

Winds will swing back offshore from the N'th but tend NE-E/NE through the day, favouring more exposed locations.

A late onshore change is likely as a deepening surface trough drifts in from the west, with a small increase in poor quality S'ly windswell due Friday morning but with no size or power.

We may see sloppy 1-2ft waves with a gusty S/SW winds.

This swell will fade through the day, while some small background W/SW groundswell over the weekend should keep inconsistent 1ft to occasionally 2ft waves hitting Clifton Saturday morning, fading Sunday. Variable tending light offshore breezes are due Saturday morning with N/NE winds Sunday.

Longer term there's nothing significant on the cards until a mid-latitude front pushes across us Tuesday next week, but more on this Friday.