Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Friday 24th November)

Best Days: Wednesday morning

Recap

Our inconsistent W/SW groundswell came in on forecast with a slight lift in swell yesterday to 1-1.5ft with favourable winds for more exposed beaches.

Come this morning there was no real swell left with tiny glassy conditions.

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This weekend and next week (Nov 25 – Dec 1)

This coming weekend is poor with no decent swell at all besides a tiny S/SE windswell maybe to 1ft tomorrow, fading Sunday. Early tomorrow winds should be light offshore, while Sunday will see N/NE breezes, swinging NW ahead of a late change.

Moving into early next week and our fun W/SW groundswell is still on track, with a strong polar low forming south-west of WA yesterday evening.

We're seeing a good but distant fetch of W/SW gales being generated in our western swell window, with an inconsistent and small W/SW groundswell due to build Monday afternoon, easing back into Tuesday.

Clifton should reach an inconsistent 2ft on the sets through the mid-late afternoon, dropping back to 1-2ft Tuesday. A secondary smaller front should generate a reinforcing W/SW swell for Wednesday morning, keeping 1-2ft sets hitting the coast before easing late in the day.

Winds will unfortunately be onshore as a surface trough moves in Monday, with S/SE breezes, while Tuesday is likely to see E/SE-SE winds. Wednesday will hopefully see a return to N/NE winds, but more on this Monday. Have a great weekend!