Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 26th April)

Best Days: Keen surfers and beginners tomorrow, Wednesday for beginners, Friday, Saturday for beginners

Features of the Forecast (tl;dr)

• Easing SW swell with clean conditions over the coming days, tiny Wed
• Small W/SW swell building late Thu, peaking Fri with N tending N/NE winds
• Inconsistent W/SW groundswell early next week

Recap

Friday's large swell eased back into Saturday with sets to an easy 4ft still across Clifton but with the cleanest options in protected spots, back to 3ft and holding yesterday with a reinforcing, mid-period SW swell.

Today the swell has eased back to the 2ft range with nice conditions.

This week and weekend (Apr 27 – May 2)

We'll see the surf continuing to ease over the coming days and thus ends the run of swell over the past few weeks.

Smaller 1-2ft waves are due into tomorrow, tiny Wednesday but with favourable winds. Light N/NW tending variable winds are due tomorrow, similar Wednesday.

We've got a small pulse of W/SW swell late week from a weakening, patchy and unfavourable tracking frontal progression from the south-west of Western Australia.

While not ideal it should produce a small pulse of swell for later Thursday, peaking Friday to 2ft on the sets. Winds look favourable out of the N/NE, tending N into the afternoon with N/NW tending variable winds Saturday as the swell fades from 1-1.5ft.

Longer term we've got a long-range but strong W/SW groundswell on the cards for early next week from a polar low firing up around the Heard Island region. There's also some additional swell possible from mid-latitude systems, but more on this in the coming updates.