Southern Tasmanian Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Wednesday December 25th)

Best Days: Saturday morning, Sunday morning for beginners, Wednesday morning, Friday morning next week

Features of the Forecast (tl;dr)

• New W/SW swell building Fri with N/NW tending strong W winds
• Easing swell Sat with N/NW winds ahead of sea breezes
• Tiny W/SW swell for later Sat and Sun AM with N/NW tending strong W winds
• Small W/SW swell for Wed with a stronger pulse Fri
• Early NW tending S winds Wed, SW Thu, N/NW Fri AM

Recap

Merry Christmas!

There was a window of light winds and lump 1-2ft surf on offer yesterday morning before deteriorating through the day.

This morning the surf is cleaner but back to 1-1.5ft.

This week and weekend (Dec 26 - 29)

Tiny surf will pad out tomorrow while into Friday, a deepening low moving quickly across us should generate a spike of W/SW swell to 1-2ft into the afternoon with a strong W’ly wind, easing back through Saturday from a similar size under a N/NW offshore.

Winds should stay good until early afternoon ahead of sea breezes.

Our small pulse of mid-period W/SW swell for Saturday afternoon and Sunday looks smaller now and only looks to come in at 1-1.5ft mostly along with a N/NW offshore ahead of strong W’ly change through the afternoon.

Early next week will start tiny but through Wednesday to Friday some better W/SW swell is due, but again the source of these swells will be a bit far north of our main swell window.

With this only slow 1-2ft sets are due Wednesday with a better 2ft+ pulse likely later week.

Winds might be a bit dicey Thursday but otherwise favourable through the morning, but more on this Friday.