South Australian Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 12th November)

Best Days: South Coast tomorrow morning, South Coast keen surfers Saturday morning, more so Sunday

Recap

Fun clean glassy waves at Waits and Parsons Saturday morning, smaller Sunday morning with funky winds. The Mid Coast was mostly tiny, with rare 1ft'ers for beginners on the beaches.

A strong new S/SW groundswell built through the day across the South Coast with good sets for the afternoon session, but average conditions with fresh sea breezes.

Today the swell was cleaner but a little morning sick but has since cleaned right up with a hot offshore wind and good 3ft sets off Middleton. Waits and Parsons are the pick again with great waves, flat and bumpy on the Mid.

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This week and weekend (Nov 13 - 18)

The surf will continue to ease over the coming days down South with small easing sets from an inconsistent 2ft off Middleton tomorrow morning. Conditions should be clean and fun on the magnets with a light N/NW offshore ahead of a shallow onshore change around midday.

This change will leave onshore S/SW winds into Wednesday as a strong high moves slowly in from the west and with smaller amounts of swell, there'll be nowhere to recommend for a surf. The Mid Coast will be tiny.

Later in the day and more so Thursday our new SW groundswell is due to fill in.

This swell will come mostly from the SW, generated by a strengthening cold front developing south of WA this afternoon and evening, dipping south-east while broadening and strengthening.

An initial fetch of strong to gale-force W/SW winds will strengthen to a more sustained gale-force+ in our south-western swell window.

A fun SW groundswell should be produced, building Thursday and peaking through the afternoon.

Middleton should build to a good 3ft to occasionally 4ft into the afternoon with 1ft+ waves on the Mid Coast under a fresh S/SE-SE breeze. Winds will unfortunately remain poor and gusty out of the S/SE on Friday as the swell eases, while also contributing a small amount of S/SE windswell to the mix.

The surf should continue to slowly ease through the weekend as winds improve owing to the high sliding slowly east.

A couple of fun pulses of mid-period SW swell are due to fill in, slowing the easing trend. These will be generated by persistent but relatively weak polar fronts moving through our swell window.

Size wise we're looking at Middleton maintaining 2-3ft sets, with pulses either side of 1ft on the Mid Coast. A more favourable E/NE cross-offshore wind is due Saturday, better Sunday with a N/NE offshore.

Longer term we may see a windy stormy W/SW swell for early/mid next week, but more on this Wednesday.