Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Wednesday 26th December)

Best Days: Saturday morning, Sunday morning, Monday, Tuesday onwards

Recap

Small onshore surf hanging in at 1-2ft yesterday, similar this morning and not too appealing.

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This week and weekend (Dec 27 - 30)

The surf will bottom out into the end of the week leaving tiny waves on the coast, but we've had a slight upgrade in the the swells due over the weekend, with a couple of stronger mid-latitude fronts expected to dip east-southeast through our swell window.

The first swell for Saturday morning will be on the small to tiny side, produced by a front that's currently south of WA, dipping east-southeast and generating a strong to near gale-force fetch of east-southeast tracking W-W/NW winds through our western and then south-western swell window.

A slight kick to 1ft to maybe 2ft is expected Saturday morning with a NW offshore, shifting W/NW and then W/SW into the afternoon.

A secondary stronger front will dip down from under WA and the Bight, strengthening directly west-southwest of us. A fetch of gale to severe-gale W/SW winds are forecast to be generated through our swell window, producing a good new W/SW swell for Sunday morning, spiking to 2ft to possibly 3ft but backing off rapidly through the day.

Winds look to be variable Sunday morning ahead of sea breezes, but we'll have to review this again on Friday.

Following this storm there are a couple of weaker systems lining up in our swell window, generate fun W/SW swells early next week, possibly followed by a larger event mid-late week, but more on this Friday.