Western Australia Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 25th November)

Best Days: Tuesday morning in the South West, next Monday and Tuesday mornings

Recap

Plenty of swell on Saturday with good winds for slightly protected locations, easing from 6-8ft across exposed breaks, cleaner to the north with 2ft sets.

Sunday was smaller again and E/SE offshore winds didn't kick in, creating bumpy conditions in the South West, tiny and bumpy to the north.

Today was smaller again but a new SW groundswell is showing in the South West with it due to reach 4-5ft+ this afternoon, 1ft to maybe 2ft in Mandurah.

This week and weekend (Nov 26 – Dec 1)

Our increase in swell this afternoon should ease back through tomorrow from the 4ft+ range in the morning across the South West, 1ft to possibly 2ft in Mandurah and 1ft+ in Perth with better offshore E/SE winds across all locations ahead of sea breezes.

Wednesday looks average with a small, fading swell and a fresh morning SE-S/SE breeze.

As touched on in Friday's update, the coming week isn't looking favourable at all for any decent swell. Winds will be an issue for swell magnets, gusty from the SE, with background swell pulses keeping the Margaret River region from bottoming out.

The first pulse is due Wednesday afternoon and for Thursday, coming in at 3ft to possibly 4ft in the South West, tiny to the north. Friday and Saturday look smaller and not worth worrying about.

Winds should finally go offshore out of the E on Sunday but with no decent size left in the tank.

The next considerable increase in swell is an inconsistent mid-range number from the W/SW early next week. The source will be a distant and patchy frontal progression forming south-east of South Africa, generating burst of strong to gale-force W'ly winds in our medium-far swell window.

Inconsistent 5-6ft sets are due across the South West, 2ft in Mandurah and 1-2ft in Perth on Monday and with light morning offshore winds, easing slowly Tuesday with great conditions again.

Following this the outlook remains slow, but more on this Wednesday.