Western Australia Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 11th November)

Best Days: Protected spots in the South West Friday morning, Saturday and Sunday mornings in the South West

Recap

Small and clean across Margs to start off the weekend, best on the small wave reefs, while a new groundswell filled in Sunday but with poor onshore winds.

Perth and Mandurah started tiny Saturday, with a better swell Sunday but with onshore winds.

Today the swell has eased with Perth and Mandurah fairing best with clean 1-2ft waves, bumpy and to 3-4ft in the South West.

This week and weekend (Nov 12 - 17)

As touched on last update, we've got more favourable winds with mid-period swells on the cards for this coming period.

The surf will ease through tomorrow and bottom out on Wednesday and with strong SE winds tomorrow, conditions will be average across the exposed breaks in the South West, and likely only 2-3ft of swell.

Wednesday looks better with a moderate E'ly breeze but nothing to really surf.

The mid-period W/SW swell has been generated by a broad but relatively weak low that formed south-east of South Africa late last week.

It looks to have weakened a little earlier than expected and with this we're expecting a little less size across the region.

An initial pulse of swell is due late Wednesday but more so Thursday to 3-4ft+ across the South West, 1ft+ in Mandurah and 1ft in Perth, holding Friday morning. A secondary pulse is then due later Friday and Saturday morning with possibly a touch more size (3-5ft Margs and 1-1.5ft Mandurah).

Less favourable S/SE tending S/SW winds are on the cards for Thursday, better Friday though fresh and gusty from the SE ahead of sea breezes.

Saturday morning looks the pick with a moderate E/SE offshore ahead of sea breezes, clean again Sunday but smaller.

Longer term there's nothing too significant on the cards with relatively weak fronts due to produce mid-period swells into next week. Winds look less favourable though and out of the south, but more on this Wednesday.