Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 27th July)

Best Days: Every day this period though biggest tomorrow

Recap

Tiny waves for beginners all weekend, continuing into this morning.

This week and weekend (Jul 28 – Aug 2)

After the run of tiny surf, we look to tomorrow's swell with anticipation, and with the run following it being small again it'll be worth jumping on.

This swell has been generated yesterday and today by a strengthening frontal system moving in from the west, with a great fetch of W'ly gales produced through our western and then south-western swell window.

The W/SW tending SW groundswell is due to fill in tomorrow and provide 3-4ft sets, easing later in the day and then down from 2ft Wednesday.

Winds tomorrow are looking favourable and variable out of the NW early, remaining variable into the afternoon.

Wednesday should then see persistent N/NW winds.

For the rest of the period we'll be looking at small to tiny and acute W'ly groundswells from mid-latitude fronts pushing in from the south-east Indian Ocean but staying mostly too far north of our swell window.

One of these systems will dip a little further south and pass across us Wednesday evening, bringing some new W/SW swell Thursday to to 2ft with NW tending variable winds.

Behind this a stronger bit more zonal frontal system looks to generate 2ft+ of W/SW groundswell for Saturday afternoon, easing Sunday as favourable winds continue.

So while not big there'll be a fun run of clean swell.

Longer term a more meridional low may push up and across us early next week bringing some onshore S/SW swell, but we'll have a closer look at this Wednesday.