Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Friday 12th February)

Best Days: Monday morning selected spots, Tuesday morning, Wednesday, Thursday

Features of the Forecast (tl;dr)

• Inconsistent W/SW groundswell building late Sun with S/SE winds, easing Mon with E/SE tending E/NE winds
• Reinforcing mid-period W/SW swell Wed with N/NE tending stronger E/NE winds, easing Thu with strengthening N/NE winds

Recap

Tiny, clean waves for beginners yesterday, similar today with the swell being ideal for learning and bigger boards.

This weekend and next week (Feb 13 - 19)

A cold front is currently pushing across us, bringing the westerly change but there'll be no real swell behind it, with the fetch slipping south across us and being zonal. Tiny 1ft waves should continue, similar Sunday morning ahead of a late increase in very inconsistent W/SW groundswell.

This swell, generated by a distant polar low and fetch of W/SW gales will kick late in the day to 2ft across Clifton Sunday, easing from 1-2ft on Monday morning.

Unfortunately a trough moving through Sunday afternoon, bringing S/SE winds will linger into Monday with a light E/SE tending E/NE breeze, then freshening.

Tuesday looks a bit smaller and hanging around 1-2ft with N/NW winds ahead of S/SE sea breezes. Late in the day but more so Wednesday a new, mid-period W/SW swell should fill in, generated by a broad, elongated but relatively weak fetch of strong W/SW winds moving east along the polar shelf.

A touch more energy back to a more consistent 2ft is due across Clifton, along with N/NE tending strong E/NE winds.

From Thursday the swell will start to fade with stronger N/NE breezes, tiny Friday and a touch less windy.

Longer term there's nothing major on the cards with a couple of significant storms firing up too far north and west of our main swell windows. More on this Monday though. Have a great weekend!