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

Best Days: Saturday protected spots in the South West, Sunday morning in the South West, Monday morning South West swell magnets

Recap

Bumpy small leftovers across Margs yesterday with winds swinging more north along with 2-3ft sets. Mandurah and Perth were tiny and hot with fresh overnight offshore winds.

This morning a weak onshore wind was blowing across all locations as the swell bottomed out.

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This week and weekend (Mar 8 – 11)

There's no new swell due through tomorrow and S/SE winds will create less than ideal conditions.

Through the day Friday a small increase in mid-period SW swell is expected ahead of some better SW groundswell Saturday.

Both swells have been generated by a broad slow moving polar storm that developed west of Heard Island earlier this week and has since projected north-east towards us while generating a fetch of strong to gale-force winds.

The mid-period swell is expected to reach 3ft+ across the South West later in the day along with fresh to strong S/SE tending S/SW winds.

The best pulse of SW groundswell for Saturday should come in at a less consistent 4-5ft across the South West, 1-1.5ft around Mandurah and 1ft in Perth.

Conditions are looking a little average now with a strong SE breeze favouring only protected spots.

The swell will ease slightly later in the day but more so Sunday from 3-4ft across the South West with strong but better E/SE winds.

Next week onwards (Mar 12 onwards)

The surf will continue to ease through next week but with weaker offshore winds Monday and Tuesday mornings, while there's no new swell due until later in the week/weekend but only small to moderate in size.

Finally, Tropical Cyclone Dumazile which is currently sitting off the Madagascar coast is too far away and is too small in scope to generate any swell of significance for us next week.