SA surf outlook Nov 12

Wow… mother nature certainly put on a great light show last night, and 4 years to the day since the great storm of 2016! SA is back to sprintery weather off the back of the cold front, but the weather will moderate over the next few days.

This evening the wind has eased from the West and there are bumpy shoulder high waves on the Mid Coast. The swell has lifted marginally on the South Coast and it’s semi-clean with surf around 2′ at Middleton.

The wind will be more W-SW early on Friday, probably 12 – 15 knots for most of the day. The Mid Coast will have messy leftover 2′ waves, and Middleton will have surf around 3′. The Bay might be OK for a paddle with winds mostly out of the west.

Winds will be light and tending Northerly early on Saturday.  The Mid Coast will have fading swell and 1′ waves, maybe the odd rare bigger set in the morning when the tide co-operates. Surf on the South Coast should be clean and around 2′ at Middleton, possibly becoming lumpy after lunch as the wind tends more East in direction.

Sunday morning should produce clean conditions on the South Coast with  NW winds at 10 – 15 knots. Surf should be in the 1 – 2′ range at Middleton, but after lunch it should build by a foot or so.  The Mid Coast will be bumpy with the NW wind, and probably around 1′ all day. The wind will swing W at lunch then SW -S by late arvo, so make sure you head south early.

A 17 knot SW wind on Monday morning will be less than great, and the Mid Coast will only have messy 1′ surf. It also doesn’t look great on the South Coast with cross-onshore winds and surf around 1 – 2′ at Middleton. The wind should be very light from the West early on Tuesday, and a new WSW swell should lift wave heights on the Mid Coast to 2′ after lunch. The swell direction won’t be great for the South Coast, and surf is probably only going to be 1′ at Middleton.  Tuesday / Wednesday is the pick of it for a dash to Yorkes.

The wind will be ENE on Wednesday morning, tending Northerly after lunch but remaining light all day.  There should be some leftover 1 – 2′ waves on the Mid Coast, an size should lift to 2 – 3′ at Middleton. It’ll probably be cleaner after lunch on the South Coast.

A Northerly will kick in on Thursday and it’ll be a warm day, with bumpy 1′ waves on the Mid Coast. It’ll be clean on the South Coast, with surf around 1 – 2′ at Middleton. At this stage, it looks like another change might arrive toward the end of the week.

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