South Australian Forecast (issued Friday 1st April)

Best Days: Mid Coast later Saturday, both coasts Sunday and Monday morning, Tuesday down South

Recap

Great surf across the exposed beaches down South yesterday with clean conditions and a fun swell, while today, a strong new S/SW groundswell has peaked with inconsistent but strong 3-5ft sets around Middleton under perfect offshore wind. The swell should ease through the day as winds hold from the NW.

The Mid Coast has been tiny, with a weak N'ly windswell this morning.

This weekend and next week (Apr 2 - 9)

South Coast: There's been no real change to the weekend's forecast, besides a slight upgrade in the size due Sunday morning across the South Coast.

A vigorous and back to back frontal progression has and is still taking place through our swell window, with an initial front projecting towards WA and the Bight setting in motion a large W/SW groundswell that's due to fill in through tomorrow and peak through the afternoon.

A larger SW groundswell will be seen Sunday morning though, from a secondary front that's currently south-west of us, projecting a fetch of severe-gale W/SW winds up through our south-western swell window.

We should see Middleton building from 3-5ft tomorrow morning more to 4-6ft into the afternoon/evening, with Sunday's swell now looking to peak to a large 6ft+ with 8ft+ sets at Waits and Parsons, easing through the afternoon.

Winds tomorrow will be average with a fresh SW tending S'ly wind, but Sunday looks to see cleaner but not perfectly aligned conditions with a light E/NE offshore ahead of afternoon S/SE sea breezes.

The surf will ease back through Monday and Tuesday, from 3-5ft at Middleton Monday morning, down from 3ft Tuesday morning.

Conditions will be much better with offshore N/NE winds Monday morning and N/NW winds Tuesday ahead of an afternoon W/SW change.

Mid Coast: The W/SW groundswell tomorrow should build strongly through the day from 1-2ft through the morning to 2-3ft later in the day as winds tend S/SE, creating cleaner conditions.

Sunday should see the swell ease back from 2-3ft with offshore E'ly winds, down further from 1-2ft Monday morning.

Longer term some moderate SW swell is due Wednesday/Thursday but with average winds, we'll have a closer look at this Monday though. Have a great weekend!