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

Best Days: Tomorrow, Thursday afternoon, Friday

Features of the Forecast (tl;dr)

• Easing W/SW groundswell tomorrow with NE tending N winds, tiny Wed with stronger N/NE tending N/NW winds
• Inconsistent W/SW groundswell building Thu PM with NW tending W/SW winds, easing Fri with N tending stronger N/NE winds

Recap

Fun, clean 1-2ft waves for Saturday as Friday's swell eased in size, back to a tiny 1-1.5ft yesterday though nice and clean again.

Today, swell that was expected to be too west for the South Arm has come in at a much better 2ft+ and with light offshore winds.

This week and weekend (July 27 – Aug 1)

Today's kick in W/SW swell will ease through tomorrow, dropping from a smaller 1-2ft, with a tiny S'ly swell likely to be also in the mix from a weak low that formed south of us on the weekend.

Conditions will be clean with NE tending N winds, stronger N/NE tending N/NW on Wednesday as the surf becomes tiny.

Moving into Thursday, we've got another tricky W'ly swell, generated by a vigorous mid-latitude frontal progression firing up towards Western Australia tomorrow and pushing east through the Bight.

We'll see a small, slim fetch of strong to gale-force W/SW winds aimed through our swell window tomorrow and through Wednesday, with an inconsistent W/SW groundswell due to build Thursday, reaching 2ft into the afternoon, then easing from a similar size Friday.

Winds look to swing from NW to W/SW on Thursday, creating bumpy conditions into the afternoon, clean Friday morning with a strengthening N tending N/NE breeze.

Make the most of tomorrow and this swell late week as following it, the outlook still remains very slow. More on this in the coming updates.