Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Wednesday 17th July)

Best Days: Tomorrow from mid-morning, later Friday, Saturday morning

Recap

Plenty of swell but poor conditions yesterday, easing back into this morning to 2ft with cleaner conditions.

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This week and weekend (Jul 18 – 21)

These notes will be brief as Ben's on annual leave.

A strong cold front pushing up and across us this afternoon will generate some new swell for tomorrow morning, coming in at 2-3ft across Clifton. Conditions will improve rapidly as a dawn W/SW breeze shifts W/NW by mid-morning and N/NW into the afternoon as the swell eases.

We then look towards the W/SW groundswell due into Friday afternoon and Saturday.

A strong mid-latitude front that's currently moving in from under WA will dip east-southeast and weaken on approach towards us, resulting in a slight downgrade in the expected size.

Clifton looks to build to 2ft Friday afternoon and ease from a similar size Saturday morning with a W/NW tending W'ly breeze on the former, and N/NW tending N/NE winds on the later.

Following this there's nothing significant until mid-next week when a vigorous mid-latitude frontal progression, just on the edge of our western swell windows moves in and under the country. More on this Friday.