Southern Tasmanian Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Wednesday June 1st)

Best Days: Thursday, Friday, Saturday morning, Monday morning

Features of the Forecast (tl;dr)

• Moderate sized S/SE swell for tomorrow with easing S swell
• N/NW winds tomorrow
• Moderate sized SE swell for Fri, easing later, smaller Sat
• Gusty N/NW tending N winds Fri, N/NW Sat
• Inconsistent W/SW groundswell Mon with W/NW tending SW winds

Recap

A tiny bump in swell yesterday with clean, small runners for the right equipment, poor and onshore today with a building S'ly swell.

This week and next (Jun 2 - 10)

We've got a broad cold low currently moving the state, projecting strong S'ly winds up and into us, and we'll see it continuing east while drawing up strong S'ly winds through our south-eastern swell window this evening and tomorrow.

This will generate fun pulses of S/SE and SE swell tomorrow and Friday as the localised S'ly swell fades and with favourable winds.

Tomorrow should come in around 2-3ft, similar Friday before easing later in the day, dropping from 1-2ft on Saturday.

Conditions look great with a N/NW breeze holding all day tomorrow, stronger N/NW tending N on Friday. Saturday will remain clean with N/NW offshore winds as the swell fades.

Longer term, we've got some small, inconsistent W/SW groundswell due Monday and Tuesday next week, generated by a distant but strong polar low today, and follow up fetch of W'ly gales tomorrow.

This should provide inconsistent 1-2ft sets Monday, with a secondary pulse Wednesday to a similar size. Locally though we're due to see a strengthening low move across us, and cold front drawing up behind it bringing a renewal of onshore S/SW winds and localised S/SW swell to the mix. More on this Friday though.