Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Wednesday 4th September)

Best Days: Tomorrow morning beginners, Sunday morning, Tuesday morning

Recap

Tiny waves for beginners yesterday and today. A slightly better W/SW swell is due to reach 1-1.5ft this afternoon but winds will swing onshore.

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This week and weekend (Sep 5 - 8)

This afternoon's tiny increase in W/SW swell should ease from a similar 1-1.5ft tomorrow and conditions will be clean with a NW offshore ahead of S/SE sea breezes.

The weekend will start tiny, but a small pulse of SW swell is expected into Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning, generated by a broad pre-frontal fetch of W/NW gales moving in along the polar shelf over the coming days.

While not ideally aligned we should still see swell spreading out radially up towards us, kicking to 1-2ft Saturday afternoon and easing from a similar size Sunday.

Conditions on Saturday aren't the best with an E/SE tending E/NE breeze, better Sunday and out fo the N/NW.

Moving into next week and a strengthening polar front is expected to push up and across us from Sunday evening, projecting a fetch of strong to gale-force S/SW winds into us.

We're looking at an onshore S/SW swell to 3-4ft or so with strong S/SW winds, easing from 2-3ft Tuesday with cleaner conditions. We'll have a closer look at this on Friday.