South Australian Forecast (issued Monday 3rd November)

Best Days: Wednesday Mid Coast, Thursday both coasts, Friday South Coast, early Sunday South Coast

Recap

The South Coast was a write-off all weekend with strong SW winds Saturday and S/SE winds Sunday creating poor stormy conditions.

The Mid Coast was average but sizey Saturday, while Sunday was fun as conditions cleaner up and the swell eased from 2ft.

Today the South Coast is the pick with an offshore breeze and easing S/SW swell while the Mid was also clean but tiny.

This week (Nov 4 - 7)

Today's S/SW swell across the South Coast will really tail off into this afternoon and evening, with nothing major size wise expected down South tomorrow at all.

Winds will be average anyway, with an early W'ly expected to give way to a strong S/SW change shortly after dawn. Therefore it won't be worth the drive from Adelaide.

Unfortunately tomorrow's onshore change will linger into Wednesday with small amounts of swell, continuing to create poor conditions down South until Thursday when winds should swing back offshore with a new mix of W/SW-SW swells.

Firstly, a short-range W/SW swell should be seen across the Mid Wednesday owing to a broad fetch of strong W/SW winds pushing through the Bight last night and today.

This should kick up tiny waves later tomorrow with better 1-1.5ft sets on Wednesday with favourable SE offshores during the morning. Some slightly better SW groundswell is due into Wednesday afternoon and Thursday though from a pre-frontal fetch of W/NW winds moving through our swell window from the Southern Indian Ocean under the Bight.

This will be better aligned for the South Coast and peak Thursday to 3ft on the sets across the Middleton stretch, while Waits and Parsons should offer 4ft+ waves. The Mid Coast is likely to see the odd bigger set near 2ft later Wednesday and Thursday morning before easing into Friday.

As touched on above, winds should swing back offshore Thursday and from the N'th (NE on the Mid) with weak sea breezes due into the afternoon.

Friday will be good again as the swell eases under fresh and gusty N/NE tending variable winds.

This weekend onwards (Nov 8 onwards)

A strong mid-latitude low pushing up into South West WA and then across through the Bight towards us should produce plenty of W/SW swell for the Mid over the weekend to 1-2ft, but conditions will be bumpy with generally onshore winds from the SW Saturday (possible variable at dawn) and then W/SW tending S/SW Sunday.

The South Coast won't see too much size, with the biggest waves due into Sunday as winds go onshore after an early W'ly breeze.

Longer term a fun pulse of S/SW groundswell is on the cards for Tuesday/Wednesday next week with NE winds Wednesday morning, but we'll review this Wednesday.