Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 6th January)

Best Days: Keen surfers Wednesday morning, Thursday morning, keen surfers Sunday morning, Monday morning

Recap

Tiny Saturday but a new kick in solid swell for Sunday was only reported as 2ft during the morning but should have produced more size through the day, especially seeing the size in Victoria and now on the southern NSW coast.

This swell was short-lived and has eased back to 2ft with a light onshore breeze which has since strengthened.

This week and weekend (Jan 7 - 12)

Our current swell is due to fade into tomorrow, but then we look at the W/SW groundswell due from the remnants of Tropical Cyclone Calvinia.

A polar low formed from the remnants yesterday, with a fetch of W/SW gales generated in our western swell window, remaining so today before weakening into tomorrow.

The slow movement of the low should generate a good W/SW groundswell with a but more size than expected on Friday.

Sets to 2-3ft are due across Clifton at the peak of the swell Wednesday but winds unfortunately look onshore as a trough moves through, bringing S/SW-SW winds though without much strength ahead of gusty S/SE sea breezes.

Thursday will be cleaner with a N/NE tending E/NE offshore but with smaller, slowly easing 2ft+ sets.

Moving into the weekend and a strengthening front being squeezed east by a strong high is due to bring a strong onshore change but poor quality increase in S/SW windswell on Saturday, easing Sunday and to what looks to be the 3ft+ range.

Winds look poor as the swell eases Sunday, cleaner Monday but smaller. We'll review this tricky system on Wednesday.