Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Friday 17th November)

Best Days: No great days, Sunday morning likely the best

Recap

Poor surf yesterday with a weak junky windswell and onshore winds, tiny into today with a lingering light onshore breeze.

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This weekend and next week (Nov 18 - 24)

Don't expect much surf this weekend, with a couple of flukey swells on the cards.

Tomorrow morning a slight lift in SW swell is due, generated by a weak polar front through the middle of the week.

Small 1-1.5ft sets may be seen tomorrow morning, with an early N/NW breeze, tending N/NE mid-morning and freshening.

Later in the day and more so Sunday morning, a very inconsistent new W/SW groundswell is expected to fill in, generated by a polar low in our far swell window earlier in the week.

Clifton may see 1ft to occasionally 2ft sets early Sunday before fading through the day, tiny Monday and Tuesday.

Similar morning N/NW winds are due Sunday, tending N/NE and then giving into SE sea breezes.

For the rest of the week there's nothing significant on the cards, with the only source of swell being a strong but distant and poorly positioned low south-west of WA.

This low will develop over the coming days, but generate W/SW winds too far north through our swell window.

An acute W'ly swell is expected to arrive Wednesday afternoon and hold Thursday.

Sets in the 1ft range are most likely with favourable winds for more exposed breaks.

Longer term there's still nothing significant on the cards for our region, so hold tight. Have a great weekend!