Western Australia Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 23rd February)

Best Days: Tuesday morning, Wednesday and Thursday mornings up at Gero, Saturday morning, next week

Recap

The weekend started off small and workable with a S/SE breeze, while Sunday saw a building S/SW swell in the South West with improving S'ly tending S/SE winds, favouring protected locations into the evening. Perth was clean and tiny early Sunday and average into the afternoon.

Today a secondary S/SW swell has kept wave heights up across all coasts with better offshore winds. Margs saw clean 5-6ft waves with 1-2ft sets in Perth and 3-4ft+ sets up at Gero.

This week (Feb 24 - 27)

Today's mix of S/SW swells should start to ease this afternoon and further into tomorrow with exposed locations expected to perform best under a morning E/NE breeze before swinging SW in the South West and NW around Perth and Gero.

Margs should ease from 3-4ft+ at exposed breaks with 1ft+ waves in Perth and 3ft+ sets up at Gero.

Wednesday will be smaller again with small to tiny surf left into Thursday under variable winds each morning in Perth and Gero and less favourable S/SE winds around Margs Wednesday with better E/SE breezes Thursday morning.

A small bump in S/SW groundswell is due on Friday but the Margs region will be the only decent option surf wise with 3-4ft+ sets, while Perth isn't likely to get above 1-1.5ft, and Gero may build to 2-3ft through the afternoon.

Winds looks less than ideal and generally from the S'th so it's not worth getting too excited about.

This weekend onwards (Feb 28 onwards)

Saturday is due to start out small and clean with an easing S/SW swell and offshore E/SE winds, while a couple of small to moderate SW groundswell pulses are due from Sunday onwards as series of relatively weak polar fronts fire up in the Heard Island region from Wednesday through until early next week at least.

With the frontal activity staying further south we're due to see favourable and persistent morning offshore E/SE winds through nearly all off next week but we'll have another look at this on Wednesday.