Next week is looking subdued but with periods of mostly favourable winds. The gist of it is a band of blocking high pressure and a suppressed zonal storm track.

No great change to the short term outlook- a strong polar low flared up as it passes under WA and today with gales to severe gales well aimed at SW and southern WA.

Next week still looks iffy for winds as a node of the long wave trough steers fronts into the SW while slow moving high pressure sits in the Central Indian Ocean. Those fronts will maintain a moderate sized series of SW pulses from Tues.

Into the weekend and we won’t see too much in the way of swell energy with the Indian Ocean in a quiet phase through the main WA swell window.