Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Wednesday 28th July)

Best Days: Tomorrow, Friday, Sunday for beginners

Features of the Forecast (tl;dr)

• Inconsistent W/SW groundswell building tomorrow with NW tending fresh W/NW winds, easing Fri with N'ly tending stronger N/NE winds
• Tiny, mid-period W/SW swell for Sun with N/NW tending variable winds

Recap

Monday's swell eased back to a tiny 1-1.5ft yesterday with today coming in even smaller.

This week and weekend (July 29 – Aug 1)

The surf is likely to start tiny tomorrow, but a fun new W/SW groundswell is due into the afternoon, generated by the earlier stages of a frontal progression that's currently moving across us.

While inconsistent, sets should build to 2ft into the afternoon, and ease back from a similar size Friday.

Conditions will be clean and favourable tomorrow morning with a N/NW offshore, shifting W/NW into the afternoon and then NW into the evening again. So try protected spots into the afternoon.

Friday will see morning N'ly winds, though strengthening into the afternoon from the N/NE.

Unfortunately, as touched on last update, the long-term outlook is void of any major surf, with a very significant storm that's currently pushing up towards Western Australia being too far north of our swell window.

A brief burst of strong W/SW winds on the backside of the progression may generate a 1-1.5ft wave for Sunday, though only suitable for beginners. N/NW tending variable winds should keep conditions clean all day.

The next significant increase in swell isn't due until later next week/weekend at the earliest, but we'll keep an eye on this and provide an update Friday.