Southern Tasmanian Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday December 4)

Best Days: Tomorrow morning, Thursday morning, Friday morning

Features of the Forecast (tl;dr)

• Fading S swell tomorrow with light, local offshore winds ahead of sea breezes
• Small to tiny W/SW swell building Wed with W/NW tending SW winds
• Tiny W/SW swell Thu/Fri with W/NW tending S/SE winds
• Tiny windswell Sat/Sun with SW winds
• Strong SW groundswell Tue next week with variable tending S/SE winds

Recap

Poor surf on the weekend with no real swell, while today, our fun pulse of S'ly swell has come in on forecast with clean sets to 2ft+ this morning, now bumpy and easing with sea breezes.

Good S swell this AM

This week and weekend (Dec 5 - 10)

Today's pulse of S'ly swell will ease off into tomorrow leaving tiny, fading from 1-1.5ft with local offshore winds ahead of sea breezes.

For the rest of the week, as touched on in Friday's notes, we'll be looking at small pulses of mid-period W/SW swell from a weak frontal progression pushing in from the west.

The strongest of these fronts is due tomorrow evening, with a weak increase to 1-2ft due through the afternoon Wednesday, fading from 1-1.5ft on Thursday.

Tiny 1-1.5ft waves are then due through Friday with the weekend coming in tiny.

Local winds Wednesday with the strongest front will be out of the W/NW in the morning, shifting SW through the afternoon as the swell builds, cleaner Thursday morning with a NW offshore ahead of sea breezes.

Friday will be clean again with W/NW winds ahead of sea breezes.

Longer term we're looking at a good pulse of SW groundswell Tuesday thanks to a deep polar low forming under the country on the weekend.

A fetch of severe-gale W/NW tending W winds are due, producing a strong swell though the size is still up for grabs. More on this Wednesday.