Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 11th November)

Best Days: Dawn tomorrow, Wednesday morning, Thursday, Friday morning, Saturday morning, Sunday morning

Recap

Our good pulse of S'ly swell came in on forecast with clean 3ft sets Saturday morning, easing back into Sunday but with less favourable winds.

Today the surf was back to 1-2ft but nice and clean again.

This week and weekend (Nov 12 - 17)

We had an upgrade in the swell due over the coming days on Friday and we've got even more size on the cards now.

A strong low formed south of WA in our western swell window last night, with a fetch of gale to severe-gale W/SW winds produced in our western swell window.

The low is now weakening slowly to our west but will stall slightly and continue generating W/SW gales in our south-western swell window tomorrow before passing under us into the evening.

We'll see an initial good pulse of W/SW groundswell filling in tomorrow, followed by mid-period SW swell Wednesday.

Size wise, Clifton should build to 3-4ft later tomorrow, with Wednesday seeing a mix of swells to in the 4ft range.

Winds tomorrow will be favourable for protected spots early with a dawn NW breeze, shifting W/NW quickly and then W/SW from late morning. Wednesday looks clean early with a NW'ly, but winds will strengthen from the W/NW late morning ahead of an early afternoon W/SW change.

The surf should ease back through Thursday as a strong mid-latitude front pushes across us, with a mix of W/SW and SW energy, dropping back from the 3ft range and winds will be good again and N/NW early, shitting W/NW through the day but holding.

A renewal of W/SW swell is then expected into Friday afternoon and more so Saturday as an elongated but relatively weak front moves in from the west, generating a fetch of strong W/SW winds.

The swell will be west in nature but should reach 2-3ft across Clifton with NW-W/NW tending W/SW winds, easing Sunday with a more favourable N/NW offshore.

Longer term there's nothing too significant on the cards so make the most of the coming days of surf.