Western Australia Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Friday 23rd June)

Best Days: Swell magnets in the South West through the whole period, biggest Saturday morning

Recap

Stormy onshore waves across Perth yesterday, cleaning up around Mandurah with a swing in winds to the S/SE. Margs was average with a weaker swell and S/SE breezes.

Today a new S/SW groundswell has filled in across the South West, providing 5-6ft sets with favourable SE winds, while Perth and Mandurah were tiny with the southerly swell direction.

This weekend and next week (June 24 – 30)

We'll see fun waves across south swell magnets in the South West over the weekend, with today's pulse of S/SW groundswell due to ease back from 5-6ft tomorrow, further down from 3-4ft Sunday.

Perth and Mandurah are expected to be tiny with fading 1ft+ sets.

Winds should veer more E/SE tomorrow, creating great conditions with a morning E/NE'ly Sunday.

Our average outlook for next week is still on track with a couple of large highs in the Indian Ocean due to block our main swell windows.

With this we'll have to rely on small, inconsistent and long-range background energy, with a small Margs due to ebb and pulse between 3-5ft from Monday through Wednesday next week.

A slightly stronger swell is due Thursday afternoon and Friday, generated by a strong storm that passed under South Africa yesterday.

A fetch of severe-gale to storm-force W/SW winds were generated in our far swell window and this should provide 4-5ft sets at magnets late week.

Perth and Mandurah are only due to offer tiny 1ft waves through the whole period.

Conditions will be great each morning through next week with E/NE offshores, strengthening Thursday and tending more NE, similar Friday with an approaching front.

This front and a secondary one closely behind it should generate a large SW groundswell for next weekend which currently looks to come in 8ft+ range across the South West, but more on this Monday. Have a great weekend!