Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 25th February)

Best Days: Wednesday morning, Saturday morning

Recap

Onshore 1-2ft waves yesterday, better yesterday with clean conditions and a fun new S/SW swell. Today the swell has faded with calm clean conditions.

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This week and weekend (Feb 26 – Mar 3)

Tomorrow will be a lay day as the surf remains tiny to flat and a surface trough sliding in from the west brings S/SW winds.

A weak front at the source of this trough generated a fetch of W/SW winds in our western swell window south-west and south of WA. It's currently weakening south-west of us and should bring a small new mid-period W/SW swell for Wednesday, likely offering 1ft to sometimes 2ft sets across Clifton.

Winds will be great and offshore from the NW, giving into afternoon SE sea breezes, clean again Thursday but only tiny and easing.

Friday will be tiny most of the day, but later we should see a new long-period SW groundswell arriving, peaking Saturday morning.

The source of this swell will be a strengthening polar low, generating a fetch of W/NW gales south-west of us mid-week. While not ideally aimed, the polar latitude should help with the swell spreading up out of the SW into us, providing fun 2ft sets, easing during the day with a N tending variable breeze.

There's nothing too significant on the cards until early next week, but in the form of more small W/SW energy. More on this Wednesday.