Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Wednesday 15th August)

Best Days: Thursday morning, Friday, Saturday morning, Monday

Recap

A continuation of small inconsistent 2ft waves yesterday, similar this morning with long waits for the sets and gusty offshore winds.

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This week and weekend (Aug 16 - 19)

Today's strong winds are linked to a vigorous mid-latitude low pushing across us, with a fetch of strong to gale-force W/NW tending W winds being generated through our western swell window.

No major size is due off this, but a better aligned fetch of strong to gale-force W/SW winds just south of us should produce a small kick to 1-2ft tomorrow.

Our polar fetch of S/SW winds looks a little shorter-lived in our swell window, but we're still expected to see a fun reinforcing pulse of S/SW swell for Friday with sets to 2ft+ across Clifton, easing into the afternoon and further Saturday from 1-1.5ft.

Winds tomorrow will be gusty our of the W/NW, tending W/SW through the day, with all day offshore N/NW winds on Friday – N/NW tending W/NW Saturday.

The strengthening polar front mentioned in Monday's notes for the weekend now looks to take the form of a cut-off low, and with this we'll see a poor windswelly swell event.

The low is forecast to move across us Sunday, bringing strong S/SE winds and a building S/SE windswell, clean but easing Monday from the 2ft+ range.

We may see a fun new SW groundswell mid-week of a polar low moving in from the west early next week, but we'll look at this again on Friday.