Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 30th April)

Best Days: Tuesday, Thursday exposed breaks

Recap

Tiny fading surf Saturday but nice and clean, ideal for beginners, while Sunday was smaller again.

Today a new inconsistent W/SW groundswell has provided 2ft+ waves with all day offshores.

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This week and weekend (May 1 - 6)

Today's W/SW swell is due to back off slowly through tomorrow, slowed by a good fetch of strong to gale-force W/NW winds pushing through our swell window yesterday and tomorrow.

This should keep 2ft waves hitting Clifton tomorrow morning, fading through the day and tiny from 1ft+ Wednesday morning.

Winds look favourable most of tomorrow and a NW tending variable breeze and then N/NW winds all day Wednesday.

For the rest of the week there's nothing significant on the cards, with a weak fetch of W/NW winds through our western swell window tomorrow afternoon and evening not likely to generate any swell over 1ft Thursday. Winds will be from the N/NE though, favouring more exposed breaks.

Into Friday afternoon and the weekend, very zonal mid-latitude frontal systems will push across us, with no major swell due off this activity, but into next week some better polar action is expected, producing good swells all week.

More on this Wednesday though.