South Australian Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Friday 8th December)

Best Days: Sunday morning South Coast, Tuesday morning South Coast

Recap

A poor building windswell out on the Mid Coast yesterday afternoon, while the South Coast was clean early and OK out at Waits for keen surfers.

Today a new mix of swells have filled in with workable 2-3ft waves down South with an early W/NW breeze and tiny 1-1.5ft waves on the Mid.

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This weekend and next week (Dec 9 - 15)

There's been an improvement in the swell prospects for the weekend, with the strengthening cold front that's currently to our south-west now due to be stronger than forecast and more in line with expectations of Monday.

But firstly tomorrow we'll see a small mix of easing mid-period SW swell and windswell, back from 1-1.5ft on the Mid Coast and down to 2ft off Middleton. A morning W/NW breeze should create good conditions in semi-protected spots down South with a more variable wind on the Mid Coast.

Coming back to the storm, we'll see a good fetch of broad W/SW winds generated in our southern swell window this afternoon and tomorrow morning, producing a building S/SW groundswell for later tomorrow, but more so Sunday with Middleton expected to come in at a good 3ft through the morning, easing through the afternoon. The Mid Coast isn't expected to get over 0.5-1ft.

A secondary weaker and less favourably aligned pre-frontal W/NW fetch moving in through our swell window tomorrow is expected to generate a reinforcing S/SW swell for Monday.

This should keep 2-3ft sets hitting Middleton, before fading from 2ft to occasionally 3ft Tuesday.

Looking at the local winds, and Sunday is now looking cleaner with a light variable tending N/NE breeze down South ahead of sea breezes, while Monday looks a little dicey as winds revert back to the E/SE-E.

Tuesday will be great across magnets with a morning N/NE offshore before sea breezes kick in.

Longer term the swell will continue to ease ahead of some decent new swell later in the week/weekend. This will be produced by a slow moving storm approaching from the west, but more on this Monday. Have a great weekend!