Western Australia Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Friday 24th January)

Best Days: For the South West - exposed breaks tomorrow morning and Sunday morning for the keen, exposed breaks Tuesday morning, Friday morning

Recap

The surf was still on the large side across the South West yesterday morning with 6ft+ sets, but conditions remained poor and only favourable for protected spots. Mandurah dropped back to 2ft to occasionally 3ft, smaller and 1-2ft in Perth.

Today the surf eased further in size and power, tiny across Perth and Mandurah, but cleaner in the South West with sets to 4-5ft on the exposed reefs.

This weekend and next week (Jan 25 - 31)

We should see a new kick in SW and S/SW groundswell tomorrow, generated by a south-east tracking and deepening polar low in our south-western swell window, and then slow moving fetch of W/SW gales in our southern swell window.

The south swell magnets around the South West should see 4-5ft sets, tiny in Mandurah and Perth.

Conditions look good with a morning SE offshore, giving into sea breezes, SE again Sunday but the swell will be on the ease, small Monday with a better E/SE-SE offshore.

Into Tuesday, our new S/SW groundswell from the secondary stages of the polar low sitting to our south is due to fill in. A fetch of W/SW gales will again be generated just within our southern swell window, with 4-5ft+ sets again due across the swell magnets and with great offshore E/SE winds ahead of S/SW sea breeze. With the southerly swell direction Perth and Mandurah will remain tiny.

Wednesday looks average with the swell due to ease as winds shift onshore, possibly S'ly at dawn if we're lucky.

The mid-latitude frontal activity discussed in the last update has unfortunately been wiped from the charts and we're looking at a continuation of smaller swells, with a fun mid-period W/SW swell on the cards for late week. This only looks to be to 3-4ft or so in the South West, but with onshore winds. More on this Monday. Have a great weekend!