Western Australia Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Friday 2nd December)

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Best Days: No good days until next Thursday

Recap

Some OK waves across Perth yesterday morning, while Mandurah was tiny and average while Margs was OK in semi-protected spots with a morning S/SE breeze.

Today was the pick down in the South West with clean 4-5ft sets (check old mate in the shot right), while to the north tiny 1-1.5ft waves were on offer.

This weekend and next week (Dec 3 - 9)

The weekend and early next week aren't looking good at all.

The surf is expected to keep easing through tomorrow with an early light onshore, freshening during the day ahead of a late SW change.

This will be from a weak front pushing up and into us, generating a weak SW swell for Sunday to 3-4ft across the South West and 1ft around Perth. Onshore S/SW winds will persist across all locations Sunday though, possibly tending S/SE mid-morning around Perth.

Monday doesn't look any better with a small to tiny surf and early light winds before onshores kick in again.

Tuesday looks to remain around the same size with increasing W'ly winds.

Our good swell for mid-late week is still on track, with a vigorous polar low expected to form between us and Heard Island on Monday. A fetch of severe-gale W/SW winds are forecast to be projected towards us until the system impacts the coast Wednesday.

A large SW groundswell is due off this low, peaking Thursday morning, with onshore mid-period SW energy building ahead of it on Wednesday.

Margs is expected to build to 8ft by later Wednesday with strong W/SW tending S/SW winds, peaking Thursday morning around 8-10ft+. Perth should see 2-3ft sets Thursday morning and better S/SE winds.

We'll have to have another look at the evolution of this low and swell on Monday though. Have a great weekend!