Western Australia Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 13th February)

Best Days: Thursday onwards in the South West, Perth later Friday and Saturday

Recap

A slow start to Saturday with small waves and fresh and gusty offshore winds, while later in the day some new swell and better winds provided more options.

Sunday was the best with easing 3-5ft sets and E'ly offshore winds.

Perth and Mandurah were tiny (biggest Sunday morning around the later with 1-1.5ft sets).

Today the swell was small to tiny and conditions were clean and OK at magnets with favourable winds.

This week and weekend (Feb 14 - 19)

The coming days will see small to tiny surf continuing, easing back through tomorrow with variable winds through most of the day.

A low point in swell is due on Wednesday and strengthening S/SE winds won't help the situation.

As talked about last week, our new swells for Thursday and Friday/Saturday are still on track.

The first swell building Thursday is only due to be moderate sized, generated by a slow moving polar front, producing a fetch of SW gales through our south-western swell window.

We should see the swell building to a good 4-5ft across the South West into the afternoon, but only 1-1.5ft in Perth late.

A slight drop in size is expected through Friday morning ahead of a new large S/SW groundswell event for Friday afternoon.

This low will sling shot a fetch of severe-gale to storm-force W/SW tending SW winds while slowly weakening and projecting towards us over the coming days, and with this we'll see a strong swell front.

A solid spike in size is expected through the afternoon, reaching 8-10ft across the South West by dark and 2ft+ in Perth.

A peak is due overnight, with the swell easing from 6-8ft and 2ft respectively Saturday morning, smaller Sunday.

Coming back to the conditions and Thursday morning will see fresh SE offshores, S/SE into the afternoon and stronger, while Friday looks much better with a fresh E/SE wind during the morning, SE into the afternoon.

Saturday is looking excellent with a straight offshore E'ly wind, similar Sunday but with afternoon sea breezes.

Longer term some new SW groundswell is due Tuesday/Wednesday but with no major size as of yet. More on this Wednesday.