Western Australia Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Friday 30th March)

Best Days: Sunday morning, Monday morning, Tuesday morning, Thursday morning all in the South West

Recap

Solid easing surf across the South West yesterday but with less than ideal conditions better around Mandurah with 2-3ft sets and 2ft waves around Perth.

This morning was much cleaner with offshore winds across most spots and good easing 4-5ft sets in the South West, with leftover 2ft sets across Mandurah and a touch smaller further north.

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This week and weekend (Mar 31 – Apr 6)

We'll see the surf continuing to ease into tomorrow and with unfavourable S/SE winds as a trough moves in from the west.

We've now got an upgrade in the S/SW groundswell due Sunday, with a strengthening storm that's currently south-west of us generating a fetch of gale to severe-gale W/SW winds late in our swell window.

We should see a fun pulse of S/SW groundswell to 4-5ft across magnets on Sunday, though tiny to the north (1-1.5ft maybe Mandurah) with the south swell direction.

Winds will swing offshore from the SE-E/SE across all locations through the morning creating good improving conditions.

A secondary front pushing in through our south-western swell window over the weekend will generate a slightly smaller reinforcing SW groundswell for Monday maintaining 3-4ft+ waves across magnets in the South West with a straight offshore easterly winds. Mandurah only looks to be around 1ft, similar in Perth.

Tuesday morning looks to be a low point with clean conditions through the morning ahead of some new long-range SW groundswell into the late afternoon and more so Wednesday.

This swell is being produced by a strong but distant fetch of gale to severe-gale W/NW winds around a polar low positioned west of Heard Island.

No major size is due off this storm with the swell due to build Wednesday and reach an inconsistent 4-6ft across the South West magnets into the afternoon, with 1-2ft sets in Mandurah, 1-1.5ft in Perth.

Winds look to revert back to the S/SE again on Wednesday, better and offshore Thursday as the swell eases, but we'll confirm this Monday. Have a great weekend!