South Australian Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 19th November)

Best Days: No great days at all

Recap

Poor average waves across the South Coast again on Saturday with onshore winds and junky, sloppy conditions, tiny on the Mid Coast.

Conditions improved through yesterday morning with early lumpy and average conditions, cleaning up through the day ahead of late sea breezes.

Today conditions have cleaned right up but the swell has eased from a small slow 2ft off Middleton, best at Waits and Parsons for experienced surfers.

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We should see the surf hanging around a similar size to today down South, with the arrival of a very inconsistent long-range SW groundswell this afternoon, easing back through tomorrow.

Middleton should see infrequent 2ft sets, tiny on the Mid Coast. Winds will unfortunately be average and onshore in the wake of a change later today. This will also generate a tiny W/SW windswell is on the Mid Coast to 1ft or so, with a better mid-period W/SW swell due to build Wednesday, ease off through Thursday.

This swell is being generated by a broad and not overly strong but favourably tracking mid-latitude front from the south-west of WA, passing under their southern coastline and onwards towards the Bight before weakening tomorrow.

We should see a good 2ft+ wave developing on the Mid Coast through the afternoon. The South Coast isn't due to see much size at all with small infrequent surf building to 2ft off Middleton, smaller early.

We're due to see winds swing back to the W/NW Wednesday morning as the mid-latitude storms in the Bight re-gather strength with two low centres moving in from the west.

As the lows move in through the day winds will strengthen from the W/SW-SW bringing an additional increase in building windswell across both coasts later.

This windswell will be the dominant source of swell across the South Coast on Thursday along with strong onshore SW tending S/SW winds.

The Mid Coast looks to see a mix of stormy windswell and easing mid-period swell from 2-3ft with those poor onshore winds.

We'll unfortunately see onshore winds persisting into Friday as the windswell eases and the mid-latitude storms develop into a stalling low off the Tasmanian East Coast.

Another mid-latitude low forming inland of us is expected to drift in from the west Saturday swinging winds back to the E/NE-NE on Saturday but with no decent groundswell at all.

It'll be tiny and weak.

The low will continue further east on Sunday bringing onshore winds again and then an offshore on Monday with small easing waves.

So all in all it's not a very good period for surfing at all with varying weak pulses of swell and average winds.