Southern Tasmanian Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Friday December 1)

Best Days: Saturday morning beginners, Monday, Thursday and Friday mornings

Features of the Forecast (tl;dr)

• Tiny Sat with variable tending S/SE winds, freshening
• S/SE winds Sun with tiny surf
• Fun mid-period S swell Mon with mod-fresh N/NE tending stronger E/NE winds
• Fading surf Tue with SW winds
• Small mid-period W/SW swell for Wed PM through Fri with morning offshores

Recap

A nice pulse of swell yesterday but with light onshore winds, cleaner this morning but tiny.

This weekend and next week (Dec 1 - 8)

There’s no change to the outlook for the weekend but there should be a tiny clean wave for beginners tomorrow with morning offshores.

A trough will bring a S/SE change through the day, lingering into Sunday with smaller, tiny surf.

Our small pulse of mid-period S/SW swell for Monday is on track with a weak polar front to our south due to generate strong SW winds through our southern swell window today and tomorrow morning.

A good 2ft to occasionally 3ft of S/SW swell is expected Monday from this source, easing back from 2ft on Tuesday.

Conditions should be clean with a N/NE offshore on Monday, tending E/NE through the afternoon, while a trough will bring an onshore change Tuesday morning.

Looking at the rest of the week and a fairly zonal frontal progression moving in, under the start should bring some windy, small W/SW swell for Wednesday afternoon through Friday, clean each morning. More on this Monday, have a great weekend!