Western Australia Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 11th December)

Best Days: Thursday and Friday mornings across the South West, desperate surfers around Mandurah Wednesday and Thursday mornings

Recap

Small clean waves across the magnets Saturday morning for keen surfers, with an inconsistent but touch more swell for Sunday morning, cleanest around dawn. Perth and Mandurah remained tiny.

This morning the swell was back to 3-4ft across the South West but with less than ideal S'ly winds, tiny to the north.

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This week and weekend (Dec 12 - 17)

Tomorrow is looking poor as the swell bottoms out along with S-S/SW winds across all locations.

Some fun new W/SW swell is due Wednesday ahead of a better SW pulse Thursday, generated by a slow moving mid-latitude front moving in from the west the last couple of days.

Wind strengths within the front weren't particularly impressive, but we should see a pulse to 3-5ft across the South West Wednesday, with 1-1.5ft sets in Mandurah and Perth, though winds will remain out of the S/SW across the Margaret River region, and S/SE tending S/SW in Perth.

The better pulse for Thursday should come in at 4-5ft+, with 1-1.5ft waves continuing across Perth and Mandurah as winds swing from the S/SE to E/SE in the South West through the morning.

Winds will revert back to the S/SE-SE on Friday as the swell eases across all locations, smaller into Saturday.

Into Sunday and more so Monday we'll see a cold front pushing up from our south interacting with an inland surface trough/low resulting in the formation of an intense mid-latitude low right off our South Coast.

A fetch of severe-gale to storm-force S'ly winds look to be generated, generating a large stormy swell for the South Coast, and an average windy S/SW swell for the South West, but we'll have a closer look at this Wednesday.