Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Friday 30th March)

Best Days: Saturday, Sunday morning, every morning next week

Recap

Tiny waves yesterday, while today some new inconsistent W/SW groundswell has filled in providing 1-2ft sets across Clifton. A touch more size should have been seen through the day but our best pulse is due tomorrow.

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This week and weekend (Mar 31 – Apr 6)

Today's swell was generated by a less than ideal fetch of W/SW winds in our western swell window, but a better fetch of W/SW gales around a stalling polar low to our south-west yesterday and today has generated a better SW pulse for tomorrow.

We should see more consistent sets up in that 3ft range tomorrow, easing slowly through the afternoon, with easing 1-2ft waves on Sunday.

Conditions tomorrow will be great most of tomorrow with an offshore N/NW breeze due to persist until mid-late afternoon ahead of sea breezes.

Sunday will also be clean into the early afternoon ahead of a shallow change.

Late in the day Sunday we may see a new W/SW swell starting to show, but this swell for Monday and a secondary pulse Tuesday has been upgraded in size.

A couple of strong mid-latitude fronts are due to race through our western swell window today and over the weekend.

The first forming under WA will project a fetch of gale to severe-gale W'ly winds through our western swell window, generating a strong W/SW groundswell for Monday which should is expected to come in at 2-3ft through the morning, while a secondary front moving through Monday looks to keep wave heights up into the afternoon and and Tuesday morning.

A third front should generate a third pulse of slightly larger swell for Tuesday afternoon followed by a possible fourth polar low. More on this Monday though.

Winds next week will swing from W/NW to W/SW with each passing front but be favourable and offshore most mornings. Have a great weekend!