Western Australia Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Wednesday 21st November)

Best Days: Swell magnets in the South West Thursday morning and Friday morning

Recap

Plenty of swell leftover yesterday with OK winds for protected spots with easing sets from 6ft+ in the South West, a better 2-3ft in Mandurah and 2ft in Perth.

This morning it's smaller but cleaner across all locations with easing 4-5ft sets in the South West, 2ft in Mandurah and 1-2ft in Perth. Winds are still good across the South West this afternoon but onshore elsewhere.

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This week and weekend (Nov 22 - 25)

We'll see the surf continuing to drop into tomorrow and only really be surfable across the South West with tiny leftovers in Perth and Mandurah.

Gusty E-E/SE offshore winds should create clean conditions, swinging onshore for a period into the afternoon as a deepening inland trough to our north turns into a low and drifts east-southeast. Winds will likely shift back cross-offshore later in the day.

A small bump in SW groundswell from a poorly aligned fetch of NW gales is expected on Friday but this doesn't look to offer much over 3-4ft across magnets, tiny in Perth and Mandurah.

Conditions should be clean again Friday morning with a light to moderate SE offshore ahead of sea breezes.

The weekend is looking average with no decent swell and an onshore change Saturday with an approaching trough, lingering into Sunday as a ridge of high pressure starts to move in.

A small mid-period SW swell is due Sunday and Monday but to no major size over 3-4ft in the South West and winds will persist from the S'th creating average conditions.

Tuesday will finally clean up but we'll only be looking at small fading sets from 3ft at magnets.

During next week we should see a stronger polar frontal progression forming in our south-western swell window, producing a larger SW swell for later next week, but we'll have to have another look at this Friday.