South Australian Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Wednesday 14th November)

Best Days: Sunday South Coast, Monday South Coast, tiny beginner waves on the Mid Coast most days

Recap

A very small window of OK winds at dawn yesterday across the South Coast before giving into an onshore change creating poor conditions for the rest of the day. The Mid Coast was tiny with a small increase in windswell through the afternoon.

Today there was a small window of OK conditions down South again with 2-3ft sets off Middleton, but winds have since shifted onshore, and the Mid Coast is tiny and bumpy. Premium subscribers now have access to our new Goolwa cam which looks over Cliffs and down towards Day St, giving a great indication of the size and conditions. Click through here for the vision.

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This week and weekend (Nov 15 - 18)

We've got an average run of conditions across the South Coast to end off the week, spoiling a good new SW groundswell.

The final touches of this groundswell are being generated by the polar low that's currently south-west of Tassie, with it due to build through tomorrow and reach 3ft to occasionally 4ft off Middleton into the afternoon. The Mid should see tiny 1ft+ waves, with both coasts easing back in size from 1ft and 3ft+ Friday morning.

As touched on above, a high will ridge in from the west through the day today, bringing moderate to fresh S/SE winds.

Friday looks to see moderate S/SW tending gusty S'ly winds, with a very slim chance for an early variable wind across the South Coast.

We'll see a slightly better E/SE breeze across the South Coast Saturday morning, though conditions will remain very average.

We'll also see some new mid-period swell fill in, with a secondary pulse for Sunday.

These mid-period swells will be generated by fetches of strong to gale-force W/SW fetches in our far-medium range swell windows south-west of WA, with weaker fetches of strong W/NW winds moving in closer to us, south-west of Tassie on Friday.

Size wise Middleton should hang in around 2ft to occasionally 3ft Saturday and a more convincing though inconsistent 3ft on Sunday with waves either side of 1ft on the Mid Coast.

Conditions will improve considerably on Sunday with a developing NE offshore through the morning, variable into the afternoon and then great Monday with a fresh N/NE tending NW breeze.

Longer term it looks like we'll see winds return to the west through next week as a mid-latitude low pushes in through the Bight, but more on this Friday.