Southern Tasmanian Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday February 13th)

Best Days: Beginners and longer boards every morning this week

Features of the Forecast (tl;dr)

• Tiny, inconsistent W/SW swells for this week with favourable winds each morning ahead of sea breezes

Recap

Not the greatest weekend of surf with tiny waves for the keen, while today a small pulse of reinforcing swell is offering inconsistent 1-2ft sets, best early ahead of a gusty onshore change.

This week and weekend (Feb 14 - 19)

Today's weak SW swell is due to fade tomorrow and unfortunately for the most part we've got an average week of surf with tiny W/SW swells that will provide consistent 1-1.5ft waves but fall just shy of offering any major size.

A progression of weak and off-axis fetches will generate mid-period swell energy from tomorrow through the end of the week.

Local winds will be the favourable and W/NW-NW tomorrow morning ahead of S/SE sea breezes, with N tending E/SE-SE winds on Wednesday and Thursday.

Friday will see more variable winds before a S/SE'ly comes up through the morning.

Longer term the models diverge regarding the deepening of a strong low under us on the weekend with GFS going a little harder than EC. Regardless some sort of swell is due into early next week but we'll review this Wednesday.