Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Wednesday 24th October)

Best Days: Thursday, early Friday, Tuesday morning

Recap

A rapid drop in size yesterday leaving tiny 1-1.5ft waves across Clifton, while today our new spike in W/SW swell has come in nicely with clean 2-3ft sets. Sea breezes have since kicked in and we should be seeing the swell starting to ease.

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This week and weekend (Oct 25 – 28)

The strong mid-latitude low linked to today's swell has already moved off to the east and with this we'll see the swell dropping from a smaller 2ft tomorrow morning with a N/NW tending W/NW breeze.

A small spike in weak new SW swell is now due on Friday, generated by a small low that's due to form west-southwest of us tomorrow morning, passing under the state tomorrow evening while generating a burst of strong SW winds.

A small kick to 1-2ft is expected on Friday with general W/SW winds, possibly W/NW for a period in the early morning.

We're then looking at tiny start to the weekend, while a polar front pushing up and over us Saturday afternoon will bring a small increase in windswell on Sunday to a junky 2ft but with onshore winds.

Longer term a pre-frontal fetch of polar gale to severe-gale W/NW winds is due to move in from the south-east Indian Ocean and to a position south-west of us, with a possible stronger storm developing immediately south-west Tuesday.

This will generate a solid swell mid-late next week, but more on this Friday.