South Australian Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Wednesday June 12th)

Best Days: Today and tomorrow morning Mid Coast, South Coast tomorrow, Friday and Saturday/Sunday mornings

Features of the Forecast (tl;dr)

• Easing W swell tomorrow with a moderate sized mid-period S/SW swell arriving through the morning, peaking into the PM, easing Fri and Sat
• Local offshore tending variable winds tomorrow, fresher NE tending E/NE Fri
• E-E/NE tending SE winds Sat and Sun
• Inconsistent SW groundswell Sun AM, easing into the PM, smaller Mon
• N/NE tending E/NE winds Mon

Recap

Yesterday was poor with strengthening winds and building levels of windswell on the Mid Coast, small to tiny and choppy down South.

Today we’ve seen the tricky W’ly swell peaking with fun, lumpy 2ft waves across the Mid Coast, onshore and 2ft to nearly 3ft across Middleton.

This week and weekend (Jun 13 - 16)

Following today’s increase in weakish W/SW we’ve got stronger levels of S/SW swell due tomorrow and Friday, generated by the earlier stages of the polar front when it was near the shelf.

The swell is due to arrive through the morning with it not being there are dawn, but building to a good 4ft across Middleton through the day while the Mid Coast eases back from 1ft to possibly 2ft.

Local winds will be favourable for both regions tomorrow and locally offshore, N/NE down South and E/NE on the Mid, tending variable into the afternoon.

Friday will be best down South with easing levels of S/SW swell from 3-4ft (tiny in the Gulf) along with fresher NE tending E/NE winds down South.

Now, as touched on in Monday’s notes, a low forming in the Tasman Sea to our east will push back towards Victoria on the weekend, bringing less favourable but still doable E/NE-E winds both Saturday and Sunday mornings, SE into the afternoon.

The swell should continue to ease into Saturday, with an inconsistent, long-range SW groundswell providing 2-3ft sets Sunday morning, easing into the afternoon and smaller Monday.

The rest of the week remains small to tiny with nothing of note until very late in the week but most likely next weekend. This revolves around some mid-latitude instability moving in from the west, with the models not converging on the outcome as yet. More on this Friday.