Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 14th May)

Best Days: Wednesday, Thursday afternoon ahead of the change, early Friday

Recap

Poor waves over the weekend with easing surf and onshore winds.

Today a fun new S/SW groundswell has provided 2ft waves with an offshore wind.

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This week and weekend (May 15 - 20)

These notes will be short as Ben's away on holidays.

Today's swell will ease back through tomorrow leaving tiny waves with an onshore SW change linked to a strong polar low passing under us.

This low will generate a good increase in SW groundswell late in the day, peaking Wednesday morning to a good 3ft before easing during the day. Winds look great most of the day with a morning NW breeze, tending W/NW into the afternoon.

Now, a much larger and stronger SW groundswell is due Thursday afternoon and Friday morning, produced by a severe low forming south-southwest of WA tomorrow morning.

A fetch of severe-gale to storm-force W'ly winds be projected ideally through our south-western swell window, producing a large long-period SW groundswell that's due to kick to a large 6ft through the late afternoon/evening. Unfortunately a morning offshore W/NW breeze is due to swing W/SW mid-late afternoon creating average conditions.

Friday will be clean with easing 3-5ft sets and an early W/NW breeze, tending SW mid-late morning.

Beyond this the storm track looks to focus just east of us through the weekend and next week, bringing plenty of sizey surf into the near future, but we'll look at this more Wednesday.