Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 5th November)

Best Days:

Recap

Large building bumpy surf through Saturday, clean and pumping on Sunday morning with easing 4-5ft sets with a moderate offshore wind.

This morning the swell was smaller and more manageable but still super fun.

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This week and weekend (Nov 6 - 11)

Our secondary strong long-period W/SW groundswell for tomorrow is still on track, with an intense polar low forming south-west of WA later last week, generating a fetch of severe-gale to storm-force W/SW winds in our swell window over the weekend.

The low is currently weakening south-west of us and we'll see the groundswell arriving tomorrow and peaking through the day to a solid 3-4ft across Clifton, if not for the odd bigger bomb.

Winds look great through the morning with a N/NW offshore, giving into a shallow W/SW change and possibly swinging back NW late.

The swell is expected to ease into Wednesday from 2-3ft with a fresh W/NW offshore expected to hold most of the day ahead of a W/SW change mid-late afternoon.

This change will be linked to a broad but relatively weak polar front pushing under us, with it forming on the back of the strong low linked to tomorrow's groundswell.

This should generate a fun mid-period W/SW swell for Thursday to 2-3ft across Clifton, easing back from 2ft or so Friday.

Winds look mostly onshore Thursday aside from an early W/NW breeze, with better NW offshores Friday, tending W/NW and then possibly variable.

The weekend isn't looking too flash with clean though tiny fading surf, though we may see a new swell for early next week. We'll have to review this on Wednesday.