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

Best Days: Tomorrow morning, Wednesday morning, Friday for the keen in the South West, Saturday in the South West

Recap

There was a slight kick in new swell on Saturday across the South West but winds failed to go true offshore, with bumpy conditions across most locations, cleaner to the north and around 2ft in Mandurah, 1-2ft across Perth.

Sunday was a bit cleaner across the South West but with a little less size, similar to the north.

Today a strong cold front has pushed across the state along with a mix of new SW groundswell and mid-period swell, with choppy 8ft+ surf in the South West, 3-4ft in Mandurah and 3ft in Perth.

This week and weekend (Dec 1 - 6)

The strong frontal system currently pushing across us will clear to the east this evening and turn into quite a significant low south of South Australia tomorrow, but with this we'll see conditions improve tomorrow.

Perth and Mandurah will be cleanest with E/SE offshores, best in protected spots in the South West with a S/SE-SE breeze.

The mix of groundswell and mid-period energy from the front will ease back in size, dropping from 6-8ft in the South West, 3ft across Mandurah and 2-3ft in Perth.

Wednesday will be smaller again but cleaner with an E/SE offshore in the South West, and S/SE-SE to the north.

As touched on last update there's nothing major on the cards for the rest of the week or weekend, with the only other source of swell being a mid-period increase Thursday afternoon and more so Friday.

This will be generated by a weak fetch of pre-frontal W/NW tending W/SW winds from a front pushing through our south-west swell window this evening through Wednesday morning.

Size wise, the swell should peak Friday to 3-5ft in the South West with tiny 1-1.5ft waves further north.

Winds will unfortunately take a S/SE tendency Friday as a high builds to our west in the wake of the weak front, with similar winds persisting into Saturday as the swell eases. Sunday looks cleaner but small to tiny.

Longer term there's nothing top significant on the cards for next week either at this stage, so make the most of the current swell.