South Australian Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Wednesday 5th June)

Best Days: No great days besides a grovel at South Coast swell magnets tomorrow and Friday

Recap

A continuation of poor onshore waves on the South Coast, tiny and peaky on the Mid Coast yesterday.

Conditions have been slowly cleaning up this morning on the South Coast with a light offshore wind, but the swell is weak and small, only for the desperate.

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This week and weekend (Jun 6 - 9)

The coming days will see cleaner and straighter conditions on the South Coast but swell wise, we're looking at flukey, small and inconsistent long-period pulses.

A slight increase due this afternoon, easing tomorrow was generated by a polar fetch of W'ly gales, south of WA earlier this week.

This looks to offer the most reliable size, but we're only talking infrequent 1-1.5ft wave off Middleton, hopefully 2ft+ at Waits and Parsons.

A late forming storm south-west of Tassie today is also forecast to produce a small S/SW groundswell pulse, but I don't think we'll see any further size, with infrequent 1-1.5ft waves persisting off Middleton tomorrow afternoon and Friday morning, easing into the afternoon.

Winds tomorrow will be good and light NW through the morning, giving into afternoon sea breezes, with a straighter offshore N/NE'ly on Friday that will persist all day.

Saturday is looking tiny with 1ft waves off Middleton and maybe the odd 1-2ft wave at Waits and Parsons but don't count on it. Conditions will remain clean with a N tending N/NW offshore.

Sunday morning will start tiny again and with strengthening N/NE winds and the source of a new increase in SW groundswell looks flukey into the afternoon. I wouldn't expect much over 1ft off Middleton and maybe the odd 2ft'er at Waits and Parsons again.

The Mid Coast will remain tiny to flat through this period but into Sunday and Monday a strong mid-latitude low moving in and across us will generate strong W/NW winds and kick up a stormy increase in W/NW windswell to the 3ft range.

The South Coast will remain small to tiny, with a better S/SW groundswell on the cards for Tuesday, generated by a strong polar fetch of W/SW gales. We'll confirm this swell source on Friday, but otherwise the outlook remains average with strong storms due to project up and across WA before moving back down towards us as funky mid-latitude lows. More on this Friday though.