South Australian Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Friday June 14th)

Best Days: Today South Coast, Sunday morning for the keen South Coast, Monday morning South Coast, Mid Coast Thursday afternoon/Friday

Features of the Forecast (tl;dr)

• Easing swell tomorrow with an inconsistent SW groundswell for Sun
• Fresh S/SE-SE winds tomorrow
• E/NE-NE tending SE Sun
• N/NE tending E winds Mon
• Inconsistent W/SW swell Tue, with a weaker swell Wed
• Mod-fresh N/NE tending E/NE winds Tue
• Building W/NW windswell on the Mid Coast Wed with strong N/NE tending NW winds
• Mod-large W/SW swell building Thu with NW tending SE winds, peaking Fri with E winds

Recap

Wednesday’s fun pulse of W’ly swell held into yesterday morning with clean conditions and 2ft sets across the Mid Coast, while the South Coast saw a good pulse of S/SW swell filling in, kicking to 4ft+ under all day offshore winds.

We’ve got a drop in swell this morning with tiny, wind affected waves in the gulf, better down South and easing from 3ft to occasionally 4ft.

Chunky sets yesterday afternoon

This weekend and next week (Jun 15 - 21)

I hope you’ve made the most of the last two days as we’ve got an average outlook for the coming days thanks to a broad, strengthening low in the southern Tasman Sea, retrograding back to the west towards us over the weekend.

This will bring fresh S/SE-SE winds tomorrow with easing levels of swell, E/NE-NE on Sunday morning along with an inconsistent SW groundswell to 2-3ft down South (lumpy), tiny in the gulf.

Monday looks cleaner and easing with 2ft sets off Middleton and a N/NE offshore that will shift E’ly into the afternoon.

Now, as touched on in the previous updates, the rest of next week is funky thanks to no real quality swell generating systems moving through our swell windows over the coming days.

We’ll see some inconsistent, background W/SW swell for Tuesday to 2ft or so across Middleton and 1ft in the gulf with a moderate to fresh N/NE tending E/NE-NE breeze.

A very small mid-period W/SW swell is likely Wednesday from a weak front moving towards Western Australia this weekend, but it looks unlikely to produce anything really over 1ft in the gulf and 1-2ft down South.

Looking at the end of the week, we’ve got a healthy frontal system, pushing up towards and then under Western Australia through the early stages of the week, generating a moderate to large sized W/SW swell for Thursday afternoon/Friday.

Local winds are a little uncertain at this stage thanks to the remnants of the swell producing storm moving in from the west, possible forming a mid-latitude low while pushing inland. With this we’d see NW tending S/SE winds as it crosses us Thursday, with E/SE-SE winds for Friday.

We’ll have to confirm this on Monday though due to the uncertainty. Have a great weekend!