Western Australia Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Wednesday 7th February)

Best Days: Thursday morning in the South West and Mandurah, Margs Saturday and Sunday mornings for keen surfers, Tuesday morning all locations

Recap

Poor surf yesterday while we've seen our new SW groundswell today come in right on forecast with 6ft+ waves across the South West, 2-3ft waves in Mandurah and sets building to 2ft across the Perth region through the morning. Cross-shore S/SE winds are favouring protected locations.

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This week and weekend (Feb 8 - 11)

Today's SW groundswell is expected to ease back slowly over the coming days due to the slow moving nature of the low that generated it.

Conditions will be great as well with a fresh offshore E/SE wind across all locations tomorrow and easing 4-5ft sets across the South West, 2ft in Mandurah and 1-1.5ft around Perth.

Friday will be smaller and winds will be average with a S/SE tending S/SW breeze.

The weekend's S/SW swells have been downgraded a little with the weak polar frontal activity only due to generate a minimal increase in size across the South West through Saturday afternoon, peaking overnight and easing Sunday.

We should see exposed breaks building to 3-4ft Saturday afternoon, easing from a similar size Sunday morning with 1ft+ waves in Mandurah, tiny around Perth.

SE winds are due Saturday morning and Sunday, though the later will likely see periods of less favourable S/SE winds during the morning with afternoon sea breezes each day.

Monday morning will be a low point in swell energy with a morning SE'ly again, but later in the day and more so Tuesday we're due to see a large S/SW groundswell filling in.

This will be generated by a strong and good polar low forming south of Heard Island tomorrow before projecting a slow moving fetch of severe-gale W/SW winds up towards the Bight on the weekend.

A large late kick in swell should be seen Monday to an easy 6ft across the South West, peaking Tuesday morning to 6-8ft. Mandurah should see 2ft+ waves with inconsistent 1-2ft sets around Perth. At this stage winds look to persist from the SE but we'll confirm this Friday.