Southern Tasmanian Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Friday June 23rd)

Best Days: Beginners Sunday, Thursday morning

Features of the Forecast (tl;dr)

• Small, inconsistent W/SW groundswell Sun with N/NW tending variable N/NE winds
• Moderate sized, mid-period swell for Wed/Thu with W/SW-SW winds Thu, NW tending W Thu

Recap

Tiny surf the last two days with poor winds today, strengthening out of the north-east quadrant.

This weekend and next week (Jun 24 - 30)

This weekend revolved around a small, inconsistent W/SW swell due through Sunday, generated by a distant frontal progression, to the south-west of Western Australia earlier this week.

It’ll be inconsistent and to 1ft to occasionally 2ft across Clifton under N/NW tending variable N/NE winds.

With the size and inconsistency, it’ll be one best left to beginners.

The next considerable increase in swell is due mid-late next week thanks to a healthy Southern Ocean frontal progression developing to our west-southwest on Sunday evening.

A good pre-frontal fetch of strong W/NW winds will be followed by post-frontal W/SW winds, weakening while projecting up and across us on Wednesday.

The swell looks a bit weak thanks to the lack of gale-force winds but we should see some fun swell for Wednesday coming in at 3ft across Clifton holding a similar size on Thursday and then easing slowly into Friday and the weekend.

WInds look dicey thanks to the progression pushing up and into us, bringing gusty W/SW-SW winds Wednesday, NW Thursday morning before shifting W.

We’ll have a closer look at this on Monday though. Longer term there’s a bit more activity on the cards but check back on Monday. Have a great weekend!