Summer 2020 ended with a great run of South swell in Southoz, delivering pumping waves to South facing coast over the last 4 days. The same swell hit the Surf Coast in Vicco today, and Bells and Winki scored the swell of the year so far, with beautiful glassy conditions.
The swell pulsed twice on The Fleurieu, and that was pretty much as predicted in the last forecast. SA’s cool kids scored fairly clean 6 – 8′ Bullies on Friday, but a surge in the swell Sunday arvo conicided with the wind dropping out allowing a dedicated few to score some very nice waves indeed. Meanwhile, back on the Mid Coast, it’s still shit. Five weeks of shit and counting…
For the rest of this week, SA will slip into a Southerly airstream, and it looks like holding right up to and thorough the long weekend.
On Tuesday, the Mid Coast will be lucky to see a few 1′ waves in the morning. It’ll be clean with light-moderate SE winds. The swell will fade overnight on the South Coast, and it’ll be lumpy with SE winds in the 15 knot range all day. Surf will be around 3 – 4′ at Middleton. West facing breaks over at Yorkes will be clean for most of the day, and those spots that wrap in Southerly swells will be worth a look. Even Pondie should still be fun.
A new Southerly swell will fill in on Wednesday, but it’ll come with Southerly winds. Early the breeze will be light, so there is a chance of scoring on the South Coast. Surf should build to around 5′ at Middleton, so again the Victor – Port Elliot stretch may be the go with a swell direction and size similar to Friday. The Southern coast of Yorkes will be onshore, but selected west-facing breaks will wrap in some of the swell. The Mid might manage 1′ waves, but with a refracted swell it’ll be more gutless than usual.
On Thursday the wind will be light again early, but onshore from the South all day. Surf will be in the 3 – 4′ range at Middleton, easing after lunch. It’ll be lumpy all day with the onshore wind. The Mid Coast will only be shin high, clean early, and bumpy after lunch.
The swell will ease further into Friday, the Mid Coast will be flat with light ESE winds and Middleton will be lumpy and in the 2′ range. West facing breaks ver at Yorkes will be clean, but marginal size-wise.
The Mid Coast flatness will continue over the weekend, and it’ll be lucky to top shin-high on Saturday or Sunday. Seas in the gulf will be smooth with E-SE winds, and mostly flat.
The South Coast will be onshore all weekend and surf will only be around 1 – 2′ at Middleton on Saturday. Sunday arvo should see a new swell start to push in, and it may get to 2 – 3′ after lunch. Winds are looking light – moderate Easterly at this stage, so there will be lumps. The long weekend is not looking epic.
Early next week a new WSW swell is lining up, but it’s a long way off and anything… or nothing… could happen in between.