Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 4th December)

Best Days: Tuesday morning, Sunday morning, Monday morning

Recap

Building stormy S/SE swell over the weekend, solid through yesterday and again this morning, but best in novelty spots.

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This week and weekend (Dec 5 - 10)

The strong and intense low responsible for our recent S/SE swell is now weakening and moving east. With this we'll see winds improving and the S/SE swell easing, dropping back from 2-3ft across Clifton (larger at more exposed breaks). A light morning NW breeze is due, tending E'ly through the day, similar into Wednesday but with no leftover size.

For the rest of the week there's nothing major on the cards, with average winds due to develop again as another low forming in the Tasman Sea drifts south towards us.

A trough moving in from the west on Thursday evening will reinforce this with poor S/SW winds and a mix of small windswell and weak groundswell to 1-1.5ft max. The East Coast will however offer good waves so check out that forecast.

Into the weekend though we're looking at a stronger polar front strengthening directly in our swell window, with a fetch of W/SW gales produced through Friday evening and Saturday.

We should see building SW swell through Saturday to the 3ft range though with strong onshore winds, cleaner and easing from a similar size Sunday morning.

Behind this a stronger and tighter low should produce another good pulse early next week, but more on this Wednesday.