South Australian Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 4th February)

Best Days: South Coast Wednesday morning, South Coast Monday morning

Recap

Fun, peaky and easing surf over the weekend, best later morning Saturday on the South Coast magnets as light winds ironed out the mix of swells. Sunday morning was clean early but small to tiny, while the Mid was tiny and mostly unsurfable all weekend.

Today the South Coast was small and onshore, while the Mid Coast is cleaner with a hint of tiny new swell this morning to 0.5ft has pulsed to 1ft now.

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This week and weekend (Feb 5 - 10)

The coming week isn't looking too flash at all. Winds will be generally onshore and the swells weak and poor in nature.

Today's new inconsistent groundswell that's providing little waves on the Mid will fade through tomorrow from 0.5-1ft or so while the South Coast will be junky and poor with a S/SE windswell in the mix and SE winds.

Wednesday morning looks to offer the best conditions for the week with a light variable wind, but swell wise, we're only looking at an easing mix of S/SE windswell and mid-period SW swell from 2ft to maybe 3ft off Middleton, a touch bigger at magnets. The Mid will be tiny.

Onshore S'ly winds will kick back in for Thursday, strengthening during the day, persisting Friday kicking up some new poor quality S'ly windswell, easing Saturday with weaker S/SW winds.

From later Saturday but more so Sunday we've got a lot more activity on the cards as a strengthening node of the Long Wave Trough develops across the south-east corner of the country and stalls into early next week.

This will focus a series of polar fronts up through our south-western swell window from the middle of this week through early next week.

The first wont be overly strong but will be slow moving, helping to generate a moderate sized mid-period S/SW swell for Sunday, building to a solid 4ft across Middleton through the day, with 1ft to possibly 1.5ft sets on the Mid Coast.

Winds will be unfortunately onshore out of the SW on Sunday as the new swell fills in, while a secondary front should tip winds around to the W/NW Monday morning as the swell starts to ease.

The secondary front should generate some new S/SW swell for Tuesday as it strengthens directly under us, but with a ridge moving in behind it winds will be poor and out of the S/SW tending S/SE, SE Wednesday. At the same time there doesn't look to be any real size on the Mid Coast, but more on this Wednesday.