Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Friday 3rd May)

Best Days: Monday morning, Wednesday morning

Recap

Tiny conditions ideal for beginners.

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This weekend and next week (May 4 - 10)

The outlook for the weekend has changed a little with, a change moving through tomorrow not likely to generate any decent windswell with a SW fetch due to weaken as it pushes east across us tomorrow.

What we'll see is tiny surf and an early W/NW breeze, tending gusty S/SW soon after with a slight increase in size.

The small pulses of S/SW groundswell due Sunday/Monday now only look to come as one, and that being for Monday, with a polar fetch of W/SW gales due to generate this swell tomorrow.

So we can expect a drop in size Sunday from 1-1.5ft or so with a variable onshore W/SW-SW breeze, not the most ideal combo.

The S/SW groundswell is due Monday and should provide better 2ft sets through the day across Clifton though with a dicey morning variable breeze, SE into the afternoon.

For the rest of the week there's only one other groundswell worth talking about and that'll be an inconsistent S/SE groundswell from a polar fetch of severe-gale to storm-force S/SE winds south of New Zealand Monday.

The fetch will only be in our swell window briefly though hopefully produce a fun S/SE groundswell Wednesday, building to 2ft+ across Clifton along with an early NW offshore ahead of a W/SW change. More on this Monday though, have a great weekend!