South Australian Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Friday 15th April)

Best Days: Monday and Tuesday down South, swell magnets keen surfers Wednesday morning

Recap

Tiny 0.5-1ft waves across the Mid yesterday, back to a tiny 0.5ft today, while the South Coast saw good improving conditions with a new inconsistent S/SW groundswell yesterday under good offshore winds until early afternoon.

The swell has eased back this morning but conditions were super clean and fun at exposed breaks across the South Coast, with ideal peelers for less experienced at Middleton.

This weekend and next week (Apr 16 - 22)

South Coast: There's no change to tomorrow's outlook with small leftovers due along with a gusty onshore S/SW tending S/SE breeze.

Into Sunday out strong pulse of S/SW groundswell has been upgraded a touch in size, with the strengthening polar frontal progression generating the swell (currently to our south-west) now due to produced stronger storm-force core winds.

A moderate to large S/SW groundswell will result, filling in Sunday and peaking into the afternoon to a strong 4-5ft+ across Middleton with 6ft to near 8ft sets at Waits and Parsons.

Conditions will be average though with a fresh and gusty E/SE breeze (possibly tending E/NE at times) but it will remain peaky and bumpy.

Monday is the best day to surf with the swell due to ease from the 4ft range at Middleton and 5ft+ at Waits and Parsons under a straight offshore N/NE breeze. Sea breezes are due into the mid-afternoon though, so get in before early afternoon.

Offshore winds will continue both Tuesday and Wednesday but the swell will become small from Tuesday, and more so tiny into Wednesday morning.

Longer term a large blocking high will result in nothing too major through the end of the week in terms of groundswell, but the high will direct a strong fetch of S/SE winds into the coast, kicking up a low quality windswell.

We'll have a closer look at this Monday though.

Mid Coast: A tiny increase in W/SW swell is due through tomorrow across the Mid, from a small weak mid-latitude low, reaching 1ft into tomorrow afternoon with late improving winds. Sunday's S/SW groundswell isn't due to top 0.5-1ft, before fading into early next week. Have a great weekend!