Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 23rd October)

Best Days: Beginners Tuesday morning, Wednesday morning, Thursday morning

Recap

Fun waves out of the wind on Saturday coming in around 2ft on the sets, while yesterday there was a bit more consistent size, but poor conditions.

This morning the swell is on the ease with clean conditions, dropping from 1-2ft.

This week and weekend (Oct 24 - 29)

Today's swell should drop back to a tiny 1ft across Clifton with a dawn W/NW breeze, swinging onshore mid-morning. Our small SW groundswell for Wednesday is looking to come more in the 1-2ft range, generated by a small and distant polar low late last week and over the weekend.

Conditions will be good with a morning NW breeze, giving into SE sea breezes, while the swell should fade from 1.5ft on Thursday with similar winds.

Longer term there's nothing significant at all on the cards until early next week when a strengthening node of the Long Wave Trough moves in from the west, bringing with it a flurry of strong frontal activity.

This activity will initially be too far north to generate any meaningful size, but we may see one of the systems dipping down and across us Monday, generating a short-range increase in windy W/SW swell, followed by another pulse mid-week. More on this Wednesday though.