Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Friday 21st December)

Best Days: Monday (biggest), Tuesday morning, Wednesday morning, Thursday morning

Recap

Tiny waves yesterday, while a slight increase in W/SW swell today has come in at 1-2ft with OK winds for keen surfers, but it wasn't great.

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This weekend and next week (Dec 22 - 28)

Tomorrow will become tiny as today's swell drops away and winds look dicey with a possible early W'ly, reverting back to the S/SW and then S/SE during the day.

Our new W/SW swell for later Sunday and Monday has been downgraded a touch, with a strengthening frontal system currently developing south-west of WA due to be fairly fast moving and tracking unfavourably to the east-southeast when strongest.

We should see a good fetch of severe-gale W'ly winds produced, but with the less than ideal track, we're only likely to see surf kicking to 2ft through the day Monday with N/NW winds holding out until mid-afternoon.

The easing trend looks to be slowed through Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from weaker trailing fronts, but size wise we're only looking at small 1-2ft sets, with favourable winds each morning, onshore into the afternoons.

Longer term there's nothing significant on the cards as the storm track remains pushes north and towards WA, out of our prime swell window. More on this Monday. Have a great weekend!