Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 8th February)

Best Days: Beginners Wednesday morning, Thursday morning, Friday morning (more exposed breaks for the savvy), next week

Features of the Forecast (tl;dr)

• Easing mix of swells tomorrow with fresh S/SW tending S/SE winds
• Tiny, clean beginner waves Wed AM
• Inconsistent E/SE groundswell Fri, best across exposed breaks
• Increasing swell energy from Sun PM

Recap

Tiny, clean 1-1.5ft waves Saturday, easing back from Friday with onshore, sloppy, tiny surf yesterday.

Today a S/SW swell whipped up from yesterday's change and low has cleaned up with fun 2-3ft sets across Clifton. The swell has since eased with a shift in winds back onshore.

This week and weekend (Feb 9 - 14)

The coming week of surf isn't too flash with today's swell due to ease along with onshore winds tomorrow and the E/SE groundswell for later week has been downgraded.

An onshore change seen through today is linked to a weak polar front, and it'll leave S/SW tending S/SE winds into tomorrow along with a mix of easing swells from the 2ft range.

Cleaner conditions are expected Wednesday but with tiny 1-1.5ft leftovers, best for beginners with a N/NW tending fresh E/NE breeze.

For the rest of the week, the surf looks tiny, but keep an eye out for an E/SE groundswell Friday, lower down the South Arm.

The source of this swell, that being a strong low forming off New Zealand's South Island doesn't look as favourable for swell production, but in saying this, 2ft sets are likely across more exposed breaks. Clifton will remain around 1ft or so. Winds will be favourable though and fresh from the W/NW.

From Sunday we'll see a bit more polar frontal activity firing up through our swell window, generating fun pulses of W/SW-SW swell that at this stage doesn't look to push much over 2ft. Winds also look to come from the north-eastern quadrant, but we'll have a closer look at this Wednesday and Friday.