Western Australia Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Friday 2nd March)

Best Days: Saturday morning the South West and Mandurah, Sunday morning swell magnets across the South West

Recap

Workable waves across the South West yesterday morning for keen surfers, with tiny amounts of swell to the north.

Today a new inconsistent SW groundswell has filled in with OK surf in the 3-5ft range across the South West this morning a little bigger this afternoon and tiny waves to the north.

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This weekend and next week (Mar 3 – 9)

Today's inconsistent SW groundswell is expected to drop through the weekend, but we've got a good new reinforcing swell due tomorrow morning, produced by a weak front projecting towards us the last couple of days.

This should keep 3-5ft sets hitting magnets across the South West tomorrow morning before easing through the day, smaller Sunday from 3ft. Mandurah should see 1-2ft sets tomorrow morning with 1-1.5ft waves in Perth.

Winds tomorrow look like they'll be fresh out of the SE for the most part during the morning, possibly tending E/SE at periods if we're lucky, while Sunday will see much better E/SE winds.

Monday should see fresh E/NE winds but the surf will be flat around Mandurah and Perth and small to tiny across the South West.

As touched on in Wednesday's updated, next week will be void of any major swells with a very inconsistent and small long-range SW groundswell due to build through Tuesday though not reaching above 2-3ft across magnets before fading Wednesday.

NE tending N/NE winds will create less than ideal conditions ahead of an onshore change through the day as a surface trough moves in from the west.

This trough isn't due to bring any new swell, just less than ideal S/SE winds across the state.

Later Friday and more so Saturday a new inconsistent SW groundswell is due, generated by a strong but weakening polar storm firing up around the Heard Island region.

Wind strengths aren't too significant and with this, we're only due to see sets to 4-5ft across the South West magnets Saturday week. More on this Monday. Have a great weekend!