Western Australia Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Wednesday 30th of April)

Best Days: Every morning over the coming period besides Thursday

Recap

Conditions improved across the coast yesterday with a dropping swell and offshores across Perth and Gero, while Margs saw lighter S'ly winds during the morning, favouring protected breaks.

Today on the other hand was great at most spots with a cleaner and easing 3-5ft of swell in the South West, clean 2ft waves in Perth and 3-4ft up at Gero.

This week (Apr 30 – May 2)

There's been no real change to the large S/SW groundswell pulses due tomorrow afternoon and Friday morning across the state with the polar storms generating each pulse now off to the east and out of our swell window below us.

The first increase due tomorrow will be met with less than favourable S/SE winds in the South West and SE winds further north, but at the peak of the swell Friday morning, much better E/SE winds are expected across most locations. Size wise we should see 6-8ft sets in the South West, 2ft to occasionally 3ft on the Perth, and 4-5ft up at Gero.

This weekend onwards (May 3 onwards)

Friday's swell will drop away through the weekend as winds remain favourable from the E/SE Saturday and E/NE Sunday north of Bunbury, with SE winds around Margs.

A series of small-moderate background SW groundswells are due through Sunday, later Monday/Tuesday but not really above 3-5ft in the South West, 1-2ft in Perth and 3ft in Gero. Winds should continue to behave until Wednesday when an approaching front swing winds N'ly and then strong onshore Thursday/Friday possibly with a large swell. We'll have another look at this Friday though.