Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Friday 23rd April)

Best Days: Saturday morning, Sunday morning, Monday morning, Tuesday

Features of the Forecast (tl;dr)

• Easing SW groundswell tomorrow, with a mid-period reinforcing SW swell for Sun, easing Mon and Tue
• Morning offshore winds, shifting W/SW-SW into the afternoons

Recap

Small to tiny yesterday morning but the swell started to kick into the afternoon with solid sets by dark, peaking today and closing out Clifton, with protected spots fairing better. This is the peak from the 'bombing' low and following front combo with the size due to ease into the weekend.

This weekend and next week (Apr 24 - 30)

Today's large, powerful W/SW groundswell will ease back in size tomorrow while tending more SW in direction, dropping back from 3-4ft tomorrow morning, smaller into Sunday but holding 3ft as a reinforcing, mid-period swell fills in.

The source of this swell is a trailing polar front though without too much strength. The swell should ease from 2-3ft on Monday, smaller Tuesday.

Conditions will be nice and clean each morning with a N/NW offshore tomorrow, shifting strong W/SW into the afternoon, N/NW on Sunday and W'ly into the afternoon. Monday should play out similar with Tuesday seeing variable winds into the afternoon.

Longer term, the outlook is fairly poor compared to what we have seen with nothing really of note. A weak, poorly aimed frontal progression may generate a small 1-2ft wave late week, but more on this Monday. Have a great weekend!