South Australian Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Friday 9th March)

Best Days: Plenty of swell but no good days unfortunately

Recap

Tiny to flat conditions across the Mid Coast, while the South Coast was much cleaner yesterday morning with some fun but inconsistent new S/SW groundswell.

Today the swell is smaller and weaker with a light E'ly wind and less than exciting conditions.

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This weekend and next week (Mar 10 - 16)

Looking at the weekend ahead and there'll be hardly any surf on offer at all tomorrow (even at Waits and Parsons) as the swell continues to bottom out.

Conditions will be great tomorrow though with an offshore wind due to persist until mid-afternoon ahead of sea breezes.

A surface trough will move in on Sunday bringing gusty cooler S/SE winds and a small increase in S/SE windswell later in the day down South. Don't expect anything on the Mid Coast.

Into next week though we've got a series of moderate S/SW groundswells on the cards, owing to a strong node of the Long Wave Trough developing across Victoria.

This will be generated by an initial strengthening polar front forming south of WA tomorrow expected to project a fetch of gale to severe-gale W/SW winds towards and then under Tassie.

A moderate sized S/SW groundswell is due off this initial system, building later Monday and peaking Tuesday morning to 4-5ft off Middleton.

A secondary more polar fetch of gale to severe-gale W/SW winds will generate a secondary pulse Wednesday to 3-5ft across Middleton, easing back into Thursday.

A third weaker but broad polar front should generate some reinforcing SW swell for Thursday ahead of a possible final increase in S/SW groundswell later week, but we'll look at this closer on Monday.

Unfortunately due to the position of a strong and stationary high in the Bight, we'll see persistent and gusty S/SE winds creating poor conditions Monday through Wednesday.

There's a possible window of brief SW winds Thursday ahead of the next front, but this isn't looking too likely.

The Mid Coast will be clean but the swell tiny and likely 1-1.5ft on the favourable parts of the tide Tuesday, more 1ft+ the rest of the week.

Have a great weekend!