Southern Tasmanian Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Wednesday June 5th)

Best Days: Keen surfers Friday, beaches Saturday morning, keen surfers Tuesday and Wednesday mornings

Features of the Forecast (tl;dr)

• Small, inconsistent SW groundswell Fri with N/NW tending NE winds, easing Sat
• Possible large swell building next Wednesday, peaking Thu AM

Recap

Light winds and glassy conditions with small to tiny levels of E/SE swell and some background W/SW groundswell that showed more into the afternoon.

This morning conditions were average and lumpy but with a bit of swell, cleaner this afternoon with variable winds.

This week and next (Jun 6 - 14)

Looking at the coming period and as touched on in the last couple of notes, it’s not looking too active.

We’ve got distant W/SW swells on the cards, generated unfavourably through our western swell windows.

In saying that, the first is due later week, generated by poorly aimed fetches of strong to gale-force W/NW-NW winds. We should see a small 1-2ft of swell from this source Friday, fading on the weekend.

Conditions will be great with a N/NW offshore, tending NE into the afternoon.

The weekend will be tiny with clean conditions Saturday, onshore Sunday as a weak polar front clips us.

This front should bring the start of some better swell into next week though, with a couple of strengthening polar systems likely to generate some sizey swell into the middle of the week. At this stage the building trend looks windy and cross-shore, clean as it peaks next Thursday. We’ll have a closer look at this Friday.