Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Wednesday 4th February)

Best Days: Today, tomorrow morning

Recap

A bit of swell yesterday with lumpy and workable conditions early before winds shifted onshore, while today our better groundswell has filled in with clean 3-4ft waves across Clifton.

This week and weekend (Mar 5 - 8)

Make the most of the current swell as it's down, down, down from here. Our current swell should ease back from 2ft, with clean conditions across selected breaks with a light N/NE offshore, shifting E'ly ahead of SE sea breezes.

Friday then looks poor with onshore W/SW tending SW winds along with a building S/SW windswell.

This will be associated with a surface low forming and drifting south off the East Coast, directing a burst of strong S/SW winds in our southern swell window.

A 2ft+ wave may be seen Friday afternoon, but a mess, easing Saturday with lingering onshore S/SW tending S/SE winds.

Sunday will remain poor with no decent swell and lingering onshore S'ly winds.

Moving into next week and initially we'll see tiny surf continuing, but some better SW swell is on the cards from Tuesday, only small in side ahead of some better swell late week.

This will be from an initially unfavourably aligned and relatively weak bunch of polar fronts, backed up by a stronger system early-mid next week.

Size wise the initial pulses only look to be 1-2ft or so, possibly 2ft to occasionally 3ft late week, but more on this Friday.