Don't make plans on Sunday because the outlook is looking good. We should have clean 10ft surf across the South West and fun 2-3ft along the Metro stretch. Plenty more surf to follow as well with favourable winds.
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Sunday is still looking good with a high pressure ridge providing light offshore winds and a solid swell peaking in the 10-12ft range. Early next week will also see a follow up swell with favourable winds.
The swell will ebb and pulse between 4-6ft throughout the coming week with workable winds on most days. Sunday is looking promising for a large pulse, and finally winds look favourable!
No shortage of size this weekend but fresh/strong onshore winds will limit options heavily. Next week holds much better prospects for a wave, despite being smaller.
The end of the week is looking shocking with fresh/strong onshore winds just about all day everyday. There will be some serious size on Saturday, but no decent quality. Wait 'til Sunday morning, or even into next week.
Best off to try and get wet on Tuesday morning. Conditions are going to really deteriorate throughout the end of the week. Large stormy surf due on Saturday afternoon.
Sunday's swell event has eased back a touch with the core fetch of 55kt winds becoming pinched and elongated. Core winds never really reached the 60kt potential, so the swell periods will be lacking for the outer bombies.
Regardless, the surf along the inshore is still more than likely to be very big, with light winds bringing a good chance of good surf. We will be monitoring the situation closely as it unfolds.
The large swell due for late Saturday/Sunday is looking bigger than the previously expected with observed winds over the Indian Ocean coming in above forecast. Not only that, this system is expected to intensify overnight into Thursday leading to a 12-15ft swell on Sunday, bigger at the offshore bombies.
Easing swell with slowly improving winds over the coming days. Good strong swell building Thursday afternoon with a larger and more powerful swell for Sunday with generally light winds at this stage.
West Australian Surf Forecast by Guy Dixon (issued Friday 28th August)
Best Days: Wednesday, Thursday
Recap:
Conditions were great on Thursday with solid 6ft surf across the South West with a few 8ft bombs thrown in for good measure. Light easterly winds were keeping everything in order making for a long day of epic waves. Further north, conditions were clean under light offshore breezes but the surf was lacking in the size department, maxing out at around 1-1.5ft.