Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 8th January)

Best Days: Beginners Tuesday morning, Thursday and Friday at spots than handle the NNE wind

Recap

Tiny clean fading surf Saturday, persisting Sunday and today at a similar size, great for beginners.

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This week and weekend (Jan 9 - 14)

Unfortunately the coming period is void of any major swell until the weekend, but as pointed out last week, the coast won't become flat.

Persistent zonal storm activity in our western swell window and far south-western swell window should provided inconsistent tiny pulses of W/SW swell over the coming week.

We should see tiny 1ft waves tomorrow, possibly increasing later in the day to 1-1.5ft, easing Wednesday morning from a similar size.

Morning NW winds will create clean conditions tomorrow before sea breezes kick in, while Wednesday looks a little dicey with a dawn SW'ly, tending variable and then SE.

Into Thursday the surf will start around 1ft again, but later in the day and more so Friday some better sized W/SW swell is due, generated by some better aligned polar frontal activity that's currently south-southwest of WA.

We should see 1-1.5ft surf though fresh N/NE winds will favour some breaks but not others.

A strong front will then push through during the weekend with tiny fading surf Saturday ahead of a secondary stronger front Sunday.

This front may actually take the form of a low and generate a fetch of W/SW-SW gales right under us, kicking up a stormy windswell, but we'll have to review this Wednesday.