South Australian Forecast (issued Wednesday 15th July)

Best Days: Saturday morning for keen surfers down South, Sunday down South, Monday morning down South

Recap

Good clean, fun waves across the South Coast yesterday morning before a strong onshore change moved through, while the Mid continued to offer junk 1-2ft sets with the onshore breeze.

Today a large and stormy S'ly swell came in across the South Coast but with fresh onshore winds, while the Mid hovered in the 2ft range and was much cleaner with the S'ly breeze.

This week and weekend (Jul 16 - 19)

The surf will be terrible over the coming days down South with today's swell dropping away under fresh to strong S/SE winds tomorrow and then S/SW winds through Friday with a new SW groundswell.

The Mid Coast will be best tomorrow with an easing 1-1.5ft of swell, and then a bumpy/choppy 1ft into Friday.

Saturday will see an improvement in conditions across the South Coast but conditions will still be lumpy/wobbly and not too flash with a morning E/NE breeze. A secondary pulse of S/SW groundswell for the morning, and then tertiary pulse for the afternoon should keep plenty of size hitting Middleton to 3-4ft, with 5-6ft sets at Waits.

Sunday will be the day to surf though as the S/SW swell eases from 3-4ft at Middleton and 4-5ft at Waits under N'ly breezes.

Next week onwards (Jul 20 onwards)

Monday will become small to tiny down South, with the morning at exposed breaks the pick under a fresh to strong Nly wind.

Into Tuesday morning a slight kick in SW groundswell is due across the coast from a very strong but very unfavourably tracking low, developing south of WA and pushing south-southeast while generating a fetch of severe-gale W'ly winds.

This is only due to provide a tiny 0.5-1ft wave on the Mid, with 2ft sets at Middleton and 2-3ft waves at Waits and Parsons under strengthening N/NW winds.

Into the second half of the week small to moderate and patchy W/SW swell is on the cards for Wednesday/Thursday, but to no major size or strength. We'll have a closer look at this Friday.