Western Australia Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Friday 1st December)

Best Days: Swell magnets across the South West Sunday mid-late morning, Monday morning, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday mornings

Recap

A small pulse of new swell and workable conditions across the South West yesterday morning, tiny to the north.

This morning conditions were much cleaner but the swell back to a very small 2ft to occasionally 3ft.

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This weekend and next week (Dec 3 - 8)

There's not too much to get excited about over the weekend, with clean conditions due again tomorrow morning, though with tiny leftovers across the South West, flat to the north.

Sunday morning should be clean again, but our new SW groundswell isn't due to really kick until the afternoon.

The swell was generated by a relatively weak polar low, with a less than favourably aligned pre-frontal NW fetch, followed by weaker post-frontal W/SW winds.

We'll likely see surf building only to 3-4ft across the South West magnets during Sunday afternoon with sea breezes, easing back from 3ft+ Monday morning. Perth and Mandurah aren't expected to really top 0.5-1ft.

Conditions are looking good Monday morning though with light offshore winds before sea breezes kick in.

Persistent weak frontal activity through the Southern Ocean will generate small background SW swells for most of next week, the first for Tuesday afternoon, followed by secondary pulses.

The size will be limited, with surf in the 4ft range on the sets across the South West, only 1ft further north.

A ridge of high pressure moving in from the west will bring S/SE winds into Tuesday , but a return to better offshore E/SE breezes are due Wednesday, Thursday and Friday mornings, favouring swell magnets.

Longer term there's still nothing major on the cards for our region, but winds look favourable. More on this Monday, have a great weekend!