Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 16th April)

Best Days:

Recap

Tiny waves Saturday with building surf Sunday coming in around 2ft through the morning, bigger later in the day.

Today we've seen a further increase in size to 3-4ft this morning, and a vigorous front passing under us should of boosted wave heights further this afternoon, but most of this swell has too much west in it.

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This weekend and next week (Apr 17- 22)

At this point in time we've got a great fetch of SW gales extending from the south of our state, down to the polar shelf in our south-west swell window.

During this afternoon we're expected to see winds strengthen towards the severe-gale range and project a little more favourably through our southern swell window, persisting into tomorrow morning before shifting away from our swell window tomorrow evening.

What we'll see is a large SW groundswell developing through tomorrow, with a large reinforcing S/SW groundswell pulse late in the day, peaking overnight and easing Wednesday.

Clifton should see large 4-6ft surf most of tomorrow out of the SW, with possibly larger sets late in the day, easing back from a S/SW direction Wednesday from 4-6ft, smaller from 2ft to occasionally 3ft Thursday morning.

Winds tomorrow will be best for protected spots with a gusty SW tending W/SW breeze, with Wednesday looking cleaner at more exposed spots with a NW offshore ahead of weak sea breezes, similar Thursday as the swell fades.

Unfortunately from here there's nothing significant at all on the cards besides a small S/SW groundswell pulse for Saturday maybe to 1-1.5ft.

Therefore make the most of the coming large swell episode!