Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 31st August)

Best Days: Tuesday, Thursday, Friday morning and Saturday for beginners

Recap

A drop in size but much cleaner conditions on the coast Saturday with easing 2-3ft sets, back to 1-2ft yesterday with northerly winds.

Today the swell has kicked in size again but with cross-shore winds and bumpy conditions.

This week and weekend (Sep 1 - 6)

Make the most of the easing swell from today as the outlook (as touched on in Friday's notes) is slow for the coming period.

We'll see fading 1-2ft sets across Clifton tomorrow with all day offshore N/NW winds.

From here the storm track will be focussed up and across Western and Southern Australia, generating swells that'll be too west and small to really impact us.

Before this pattern sets up though we'll see one final fun S/SW swell from a polar fetch of strong to gale-force W/SW winds this evening and tomorrow.

The swell is due later Wednesday but more so Thursday with fun 2ft+ sets under a N/NE tending N/NW breeze.

Following this a tiny W/SW swell is expected on Friday and Saturday to 1-1.5ft, generated by a fetch of strong W/SW winds west of us mid-week.

It'll be favourable for beginners with a morning W/NW-NW breeze on Friday, shifting W/SW, with Saturday seeing morning N/NW winds, shifting W/SW later afternoon.

Beyond this there's nothing significant until mid-next week, but more on this Wednesday.