Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 5th February)

Best Days: Tuesday morning, Wednesday morning for beginners and similar Saturday morning

Recap

Onshore sloppy and average waves Saturday with a lingering onshore Sunday.

Today some good new S/SW swell has filled in with clean conditions and fun 2ft sets across Clifton.

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This weekend and next week (Feb 3 - 9)

Today's increase in S/SW swell should be followed up by a secondary reinforcing pulse tomorrow, generated by well aligned and slow moving polar frontal activity south of us the last couple of days.

2ft surf is expected across Clifton with a light N'ly wind ahead of fresh E/SE sea breezes, tiny Wednesday but clean again in the morning with a N/NW offshore.

The next increase in swell is due later Thursday and more so Friday, that being a S/SE groundswell from good strong fetch of S/SE gales currently on the polar shelf, south of New Zealand.

This swell will be inconsistent but should come in around 2ft Friday, though winds will unfortunately be onshore from the S/SE with a weak trough to our east.

Saturday should be clean but the swell looks tiny and easing from 1-1.5ft.

Longer term there's nothing really significant due until mid-late next week when the westerly storm track increases a little in activity. More on this Wednesday.