Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Friday 13th March)

Best Days: Desperate surfers possibly Sunday morning, Monday morning, Tuesday

Recap

Small and clean waves yesterday, with some better swell filling in today but an onshore change has just hit.

This weekend and next week (Mar 14 - 20)

Looking at the weekend and we've still got poor conditions on the cards for tomorrow with onshore winds in the wake of today's front expected to linger from the W/SW-SW tomorrow morning, fresh to strong and with a new close-range SW swell to 2ft+.

Sunday looks a touch better with weaker W/SW winds, possibly tending W/NW for a period at dawn and with a small mix of swells to 1-2ft.

Our new swell for Monday is on track with a strengthening polar low pushing fairly fast over the coming days due to generate a fetch of pre-frontal W/NW gales in our swell window.

We may see a late kick in size Sunday but Monday should reveal fun 2ft to possibly 3ft sets along with a variable tending light N'ly breeze ahead of E/SE sea breezes.

Moving into Tuesday and Wednesday the swell will slowly fade away and conditions look good with offshore N'ly winds on the former, similar Wednesday ahead of a late change.

Longer term the outlook is set to become more active from later next week as a series of strong polar fronts start to develop in our swell window, under the influence of a strengthening node of the Long Wave Trough.

We'll have more details surrounding this on Monday. Have a great weekend!