Western Australia Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Wednesday 14th March)

Best Days: Keen surfers Friday morning, Sunday morning, every morning next week across the South West

Recap

Tiny surf around Perth and Mandurah with fun clean waves across magnets in the South West the last two days.

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This week and weekend (Mar 15 – 18)

Tomorrow will be a lay day with a low point in swell and onshore S/SW-SW winds.

Later in the day some new long-period SW groundswell is due to arrive, peaking overnight and easing slowly Friday.

There's been no real change to the expected size, with inconsistent but good 4-5ft sets due across swell magnets in the South West Friday morning, easing during the day with 1-2ft sets in Mandurah, tiny around Perth.

Winds will be best around Mandurah and Perth and out of the SE, while Margs look dicey with a light S'ly tending SW breeze.

Our building swell through the weekend is still on track, but winds are now looking much better for Sunday.

A polar front that's currently east of the Heard Island region is expected to project up and into us on the weekend, bringing strong SW winds and a building SW windswell through Saturday ahead of some better groundswell Sunday.

We should see Margs coming in around 6ft+ Sunday morning, with 2ft+ sets in Mandurah, 1-2ft in Perth.

The front will move off quickly to the east Saturday evening resulting in winds swinging straight offshore from the E/SE-E through Sunday morning ahead of sea breezes.

The swell is due to ease through early next week as winds persist from the E/SE, and we're then still expected to see some good long-period S/SW groundswell later Tuesday/Wednesday from a flurry of strong frontal activity forming late in our swell window under the country.

This will only impact the South West and with offshore winds, but more on this Friday.