These weather forecasters have the best job , can be completely wrong and still get paid

Yesterday surf supposed to peak at about 90 cm at 9 a.m. So jump out of bed on my day off and head to the beach , flat as .

Yesterday afternoon supposed to be about 1-2 foot so take the young bloke down for a play and don't bother taking my board . Get there surf 4 foot with bigger sets rolling through .making for a quick trip home to change the gear .

Frustrating

yes i agree, wouldn't invest in surf forecast shares ha

I use this one a lot..

www.bom.gov.au/australia/meteye/

And usually just get live wind off weatherzone.com.au

Tassie I use these guys to see what the period is, direction and size. Not sure what yr Tassie equiv would be though. Because its a live reading I can look up and down the coast and see the swell marching up or down the coast and make a rough calculation to when it should start to hit.

new.mhl.nsw.gov.au/data/realtime/wave/

I find seabreeze pretty good for winds a few days out. The new BOM site that SP posted is also pretty good. I like that one a lot. I look at the synoptic most days as well- make sure you find one that doesn't just show in and around the Aust coast....you want to be looking further afield.