Southern Tasmanian Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Friday May 27th)

Best Days: Saturday beginners, Thursday

Features of the Forecast (tl;dr)

• Inconsistent, tiny W/SW swell Sat and Sun AM
• N/NE tending variable winds Sat, SW tending variable winds Sun
• Weak, localised S/SW swell for Wed with strong S/SW winds
• Rapidly easing S/SW swell Thu with W/NW winds

Recap

Tiny conditions ideal for beginners yesterday and today.

This weekend and next week (May 28 – Jun 3)

Into this weekend we'll see some inconsistent W/SW swell making its way into Clifton generated last weekend in our far swell window. Infrequent 1-1.5ft sets are due tomorrow and Sunday morning with favourable N/NE tending variable winds tomorrow.

Sunday now looks dicey as a trough brings light SW winds early, easing and tending variable creating improving conditions but with the fading swell. With this outlook, beginners should target tomorrow.

As touched on earlier this week there's no new major swells due thanks to a strengthening polar front pushing up and into Western and South Australia, too far north of our swell window.

This won't be favourable for swell production at all, and we'll see a poor quality windswell build through Wednesday as the low moves across us, drawing up a fetch of strong to gale-force S/SW winds behind it.

Strong S/SW winds will create poor conditions along with 3-4ft of weak S/SW swell, easing rapidly Thursday from 2ft+ as winds swing back to the W/NW-NW.

Longer term there's nothing too significant on the cards at all until the second week of June, more on this Monday and next week. Have a great weekend!