Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Wednesday 5th December)

Best Days: Monday morning

Recap

Easing surf with variable conditions yesterday, tiny into this morning and only suitable for beginners.

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This week and weekend (Dec 6 - 9)

Unfortunately there's nothing to surf heading into the end of the week and the weekend, with the swell bottoming out from Friday through Sunday.

Our only real chance of a wave will be on Monday morning, with a small W/SW swell due to fill in across Clifton.

The West Coast will see a much larger long-period W/SW groundswell, generated by a strong polar front forming around the Heard Island region this morning.

This front will push north out of our swell window towards and then under WA, but will weaken and dip east-southeast while tracking closer towards us into Friday afternoon and Saturday.

A fetch of strong W/SW winds are expected to be generated in our western swell window, producing a small W/SW swell that may be seen on dark Sunday.

Size wise we should see 1-2ft sets across Clifton Monday morning when it peaks, easing off slowly through the day, tiny into Tuesday and Wednesday.

A morning NW offshore should create clean conditions ahead afternoon sea breezes, clean again as the swell eases Tuesday.

Longer term we'll see plenty of weak frontal systems moving through our western swell window, but the size expected off these isn't likely to top 1-2ft at this stage. Check back here Friday for an update on the outlook later next week.