Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 26th March)

Best Days: Tuesday morning, Friday morning, Saturday

Recap

Small clean fading surf on Saturday, tiny yesterday and into today.

We're currently seeing a strong mid-latitude low pushing across us and with this we've seen a gusty SW change. This will kick up some windswell later, though with no real quality.

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This week and weekend (Mar 27 – Apr 1)

The strong mid-latitude currently pushing across us is aiming a fetch of strong to near gale-force S/SW winds into the state and this will produce a late increase in S/SW windswell today, peaking overnight and easing quickly tomorrow from 2-3ft.

Winds are looking great with a morning NW offshore, tending W/NW and then onshore into the afternoon.

We'll then see the coast go tiny ahead of some new W/SW groundswell later Thursday but more so Friday.

Currently a strong polar front is sitting in our far swell window, generating a fetch of W/SW gales, but this will weaken before undertaking a secondary intensification west-southwest of us mid-late week.

We'll see a slow moving fetch of gale to severe-gale W/SW winds in our western swell window producing a good W/SW groundswell for later Thursday but more so Friday, peaking into the late afternoon/evening and then easing Saturday.

Clifton should see 1-1.5ft sets later Thursday with all day offshore NW tending W/NW winds, while Friday is expected to build from 2ft, to 2-3ft later in the day, easing from a similar size Saturday morning.

Conditions should be clean Friday morning but later in the day looks bumpy with a W/SW breeze, while Saturday will be clean all day.

Longer term the outlook remains active as a series of fronts push through our western swell window, producing fun swell pulses next week.