South Australian Forecast (issued Friday 10th April)

Best Days: Saturday morning, Monday morning, Tuesday morning exposed breaks

Recap

Much better conditions yesterday with an E'ly breeze down South and a straighter 3-5ft of easing S/SW groundswell. Afternoon sea breezes didn't do too much damage either. The Mid Coast was tiny but great for most of the day and ideal for beginners.

Today the surf was a smaller and peaky 2-3ft down South and conditions favourable but weak sea breezes have since started to develop. The Mid is tiny and near flat.

This weekend (Apr 11 – 12)

Tomorrow will be the pick of the weekend with a clean easing and fun S/SW groundswell from 2ft+ at Middleton and 3ft+ at Waits and Parsons under straight offshore N/NE winds before afternoon sea breezes kick in.

Sunday is now looking poor with a freshening E/SE breeze as a surface trough deepens west of the Bight. A new S/SW groundswell is due to build through the day but with the average winds, it's not worth chasing.

Monday onwards (Apr 13 onwards)

Unfortunately a good pulse of S'ly groundswell due later Monday and Tuesday morning has been downgraded with the polar low generating it now forming a touch further east than ideal and more within Tasmania's swell shadow.

Instead Sunday's S/SW groundswell will drop away from a small and inconsistent 2ft at Middleton with 2ft to possibly 3ft sets early at Waits and Parsons. Winds will be good but fresh to strong from the NE favouring Goolwa and Parsons.

Tuesday should reveal similar size waves as the S'ly groundswell peaks under fresh to strong N/NE tending W/NW winds as the low sitting to our west pushes east and across us.

This low won't bring any meaningful swell for both coasts with only a possible tiny 1ft wave due across the Mid Wednesday. With this in mind the South Coast will bottom out into Wednesday under early NW winds.

Of greater importance is increased swell activity due into the Friday and the following week, owing to a strong node of the Long Wave Trough moving in from the west later next week.

An initial inconsistent and moderate sized W/SW groundswell is due to fill in Friday ahead of a stronger pulse Saturday and then possible larger pulse later Sunday/Monday but we'll have a closer look at this on Monday. Have a great weekend!