Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Wednesday 27th February)

Best Days: This Saturday, next Thursday and next Saturday

Recap

Tiny poor surf yesterday, fun today with a new lift in W/SW swell with favourable winds.

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This week and weekend (Feb 28 – Mar 3)

Today's event is expected to ease back through tomorrow, clean and ideal for beginners through the morning.

A low point is due Friday morning and conditions will be clean again, but very late in the day a new long-period SW groundswell is due to build, peaking Saturday morning.

This is being generated by a good polar fetch of gale to severe-gale W/NW winds south of WA. Sea breezes are due into Friday afternoon when the swell builds, better Saturday as it peaks during the morning to a good 2ft across Clifton with a N'ly tending NW breeze.

From here the swell will ease and become tiny into Sunday, clean through the morning and ideal for beginners.

The surf will remain tiny through early next week, but come Thursday a very inconsistent long-period W'ly groundswell is due to fill in.

This swell will be produced by a distant but strong low forming around Heard Island and moving into our swell window, south-west of WA on the weekend.

Very inconsistent lines of swell are expected Thursday to 1-2ft, but with the west direction it will be even more inconsistent than normal.

Following this a similar but more southerly positioned storm looks to generate a slightly better swell for next weekend, but more on this Friday.