Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 15th October)

Best Days: No great days, exposed breaks Thursday

Recap

Good fun waves Saturday morning with nice clean conditions, tiny and ideal for beginners yesterday with near flat conditions today.

Today’s Forecaster Notes are brought to you by Rip Curl

This weekend and next week (Oct 16 – 21)

A touched on last update, there isn't much in the way of surf due across our region over the coming period, with a tiny W'ly swell possibly offering peelers for beginners Thursday and Friday.

This swell was generated by a strong storm firing up south-west of WA, aiming a pre-frontal fetch of severe-gale W/NW winds through our western swell window, with core wind speeds reaching storm-force briefly last night.

This may generate a tiny though inconsistent 1-1.5ft wave on Thursday with gusty N/NE winds, favouring more exposed breaks, with fading surf Friday under a light morning NW breeze.

Into Saturday a strong mid-latitude front pushing across us may generate a small pulse of W'ly windswell into the afternoon with strong W'ly winds, fading Sunday.

Longer term we're looking at some slightly better W/SW groundswell into next week as a strong node of the Long Wave Trough develops in the Bight, projecting a series of strong polar and mid-latitude fronts through our western swell window.

We'll have a closer look at this on Wednesday though.