South Australian Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Wednesday 7th February)

Best Days: Mid Coast later Thursday and Friday, South Coast keen surfers Friday morning and possibly early Saturday, Monday morning South Coast

Recap

Flat conditions across the Mid Coast yesterday and this morning with a small to tiny and weak S/SE windswell across the South Coast with variable winds each morning. This morning was very small though and only for desperadoes.

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This week and weekend (Feb 8 - 11)

No new swell is due tomorrow morning and early light winds should create clean conditions before a trough moves in from the west bringing a gusty S/SE change.

Into the late afternoon on the Mid Coast we should see our new pulse of W/SW groundswell filling in, generated by a a strong slow moving low south-west of WA the past couple of days.

The swell has come in well across the South West WA coast and should build to 1-1.5ft tomorrow afternoon/evening, with Friday seeing a peak to 2ft on the sets on the favourable parts of the day.

The South Coast should see small 2ft sets from about Day St to Goolwa and morning variable tending locally offshore winds should create great conditions across both coasts ahead of sea breezes.

The W/SW swell will ease back into Saturday from 1ft+ on the Mid Coast while some small reinforcing SW swell is due down South, produced by a weak but broad fetch of strong W/SW winds on the back of the low linked to Friday's swell.

Winds are a little suspect and still up in the air with possible variable breezes ahead of a gusty SW change. We'll review this Friday.

This change is expected to bring some small new swell for both the Mid and South Coasts on Sunday/Monday but only weak in energy.

Later this week the initial mid-latitude front will produce a fetch of strong W/SW winds in our western swell window. The swell isn't expected to top 1ft on the Mid Coast with weak 2ft waves down South along with lingering onshore S/SW winds in the wake of Saturday's change.

Lighter winds may be seen Monday morning as the swell eases.

Longer term a much better Southern Ocean frontal progression is expected to generate some larger swell mid-week with hopefully workable winds. More on this Friday.