South Australian Forecast (issued Friday 13th November)

Best Days: Mid Coast Saturday and early Sunday, South Coast Monday morning, desperate surfers down South Tuesday and Wednesday

Recap

Tiny fading 1ft waves across the Mid yesterday with offshore winds, while the South Coast offered plenty of size but with persisting and strong onshore winds.

Today is no different with a junky mix of S'ly windswell and SW groundswell along with fresh to strong S'ly winds. The Mid Coast was back to a tiny 0.5-1ft and lumpy with the S'ly breeze. A new W/SW groundswell is due to kick later in the day to 1-1.5ft so keep an eye on the South Port cam for an signs of this.

This weekend (Nov 12 - 15)

South Coast: A strong W/SW groundswell due to peak tomorrow to 3-4ft+ at Middleton and 6ft at Waits will be spoilt by onshore winds from the S/SW again. One positive is that the American weather model forecasts have the S/SW'ly becoming light through the morning, but the other models have it remaining fresh. In any case it won't be too pretty after stronger overnight onshores.

The swell will ease slowly through Sunday as winds tend to the SE, and even possibly E/SE, but conditions will remain poor.

Mid Coast: Tomorrow's W/SW swell should come in at a good but inconsistent 2ft all day, before easing back from 1-1.5ft on Sunday morning. Winds won't be perfect but still good tomorrow with an early S/SE'ly, tending S/SW through the day and then back offshore late. Sunday is expected to be straighter through the morning with those better offshores.

Next week onwards (Nov 16 onwards)

South Coast: Winds will finally swing offshore from the N'th Monday creating clean conditions down South with an easing swell from 2ft at Middleton and and 3ft+ at Waits, becoming small to tiny through the afternoon as a weak SW change moves through. Therefore aim for the early.

Tuesday morning should see an early W/NW'ly but there'll be no real swell left, and this will be a good lay day.

Into Wednesday, favourable NE to NW winds are expected but the swell will remain small to tiny, with Waits the only real option for maybe 2ft sets. A slight kick in swell is due into the afternoon from a weak low developing south of us Tuesday, but keep your expectations low.

The end of the week doesn't look to interesting either besides favourable winds Friday, but we'll have another look at this on Monday.

Mid Coast: Saturday' swell will become tiny into Monday with no real decent surf due until next weekend. Therefore make the most of the weekend's waves. Have a great weekend!