Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 29th April)

Best Days: Sunday morning, Monday morning

Recap

Easing surf through yesterday, back to a tiny 1-1.5ft today.

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This week and weekend (May 2 - 5)

The outlook remains tiny through the end of the week, but moving into the weekend a broad and weak mid-latitude low is expected to move across us, bringing a SW change on Saturday and small increase in weak SW windswell.

Size wise it doesn't look like we'll see much over 2ft, but with strong SW tending S/SW winds. The swell should back off from a similar 2ft on Sunday with possibly variable winds, but we'll have to review this Friday.

A polar front that was worth keeping an eye on now looks to be weaker and positioned further east than ideal to generate any major swell for us, with back to back fetches of strong to gale-force W/SW winds now expected in our swell window.

A late kick in size Sunday to 2ft is likely, easing from 2-3ft Monday with variable morning winds again.

Longer term there's nothing significant on the cards until the following weekend as the storm track remains focussed towards WA and nothing of note develops in the Southern Ocean under Australia. More on this Friday.