Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Wednesday 22nd July)

Best Days: Thursday, Friday and Saturday for beginners, later Wednesday and Thursday morning

Recap

A bit more swell on the coast yesterday after building Monday, not the cleanest but workable for keen surfers, similar this morning but a bit smaller and to a bumpy 2ft.

This week and weekend (Jul 23 – 26)

A cold front passing under us today should help maintain 2ft waves across Clifton tomorrow morning, easing through the afternoon and then tiny Friday but ideal for beginners.

Conditions should be nice and clean with NW tending variable breeze tomorrow, N/NW tending N on Friday.

Into the weekend there's no major surf due with tiny to flat waves likely (more so Sunday) but with clean conditions. A small and tight low currently sitting south-southwest of WA is generating a fetch of W/SW gales and this may provide the most size Saturday morning to 1ft+.

Into next week the storm track will remain unfavourable but a series of south-east tracking fronts may generate a couple of small spikes in swell mid-late week.

The first will strengthen south-west of us on Tuesday evening with a fetch of W/SW gales produced briefly in our swell window.

A spike to 2-3ft may be seen on Wednesday afternoon to 2-3ft, fading from 2ft Thursday. Behind this a more drawn out fetch of W'ly gales should generate some better swell for next weekend, but more on this Friday.