Western Australia Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Wednesday 13th February)

Best Days: Sunday morning and Monday morning across the South West magnets

Recap

Good improving surf with a building swell across the South West yesterday morning before sea breezes kicked in, tiny to the north.

Today was the day to surf with straight offshore winds which have lasted almost to midday across the South West and clean 4-6ft waves on the exposed reefs, unfortunately undersized and on the tiny side in Mandurah and to 1-1.5ft, tiny in Perth.

No wind and good sets this AM..

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This week and weekend (Feb 14 - 17)

This morning was the pick of the period with the swell due to tail off with average winds through the end of the week.

A S/SE tending S/SW wind is expected tomorrow as the S/SW groundswell eases back from the 3-4ft range on the South West magnets, tiny to the north, with smaller waves Friday under similar S/SE tending S/SW winds.

Saturday will remain poor with no new swell and a morning S/SE breeze, strong out of the S/SW into the afternoon.

We should see a fun new S/SW swell Sunday and Monday with good offshore winds, generated by a strong low forming south-west of us Friday, with a tight fetch of slow moving strong to gale-force SS winds due to be generated in our southern swell window, moving further east through the weekend.

No major size is due off this swell and it will consist of mostly mid-period energy with 4ft+ sets due across the South West swell magnets, easing through Monday from 3ft. Perth and Mandurah will unfortunately remain tiny.

Conditions on Sunday are looking great with an E/SE offshore wind S/SE into the afternoon, and then E Monday, variable into the middle of the day ahead of sea breezes.

Longer term, into the rest of next week there's no major swells due besides mid-period SW energy that won't really impact Mandurah and Perth and will just keep Margs ticking along with less than ideal S/SE-SE morning winds. More on this Friday.