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

Best Days: Saturday morning Margs, Sunday and Monday mornings Margs and Mandurah, Margs Tuesday and Wednesday mornings

Features of the Forecast (tl;dr)

• Easing swell tomorrow with mod-fresh E/SE winds ahead of sea breezes
• Moderate sized S/SW groundswell for Sun, with a reinforcing pulse Mon AM, easing
• Mod-fresh E/SE winds Sun AM ahead of sea breezes, moderate E/SE winds Mon AM ahead of sea breezes
• Fading surf Tue, Wed with strong E/SE-E winds in the mornings

Recap

Poor surf through yesterday, with a huge contrast into today with our new mid-period SW swell coming in right on cue.

Winds have also done their bit, swinging offshore with 6ft to occasionally 8ft surf in the South West, 2ft in Mandurah and 1-2ft across Perth.

Great surf this AM

This weekend and next week (Feb 25 – Mar 3)

We've got a good weekend of surf ahead in the South West, with today's swell due to ease this afternoon, dropping further tomorrow but still being 4-5ft on the magnets through the morning. Perth and Mandurah look to drop to 1-1.5ft and conditions will be great with a moderate to fresh E/SE offshore before strong sea breezes kick in.

Similar winds are due on Sunday, coinciding with a new pulse of reinforcing S/SW groundswell, generated by an elongated polar front that formed around the Heard Island region yesterday.

An elongated fetch of gales with stronger embedded winds should produce two pulses of swell, the first for Sunday and the second, a reinforcing pulse for Monday morning.

Sunday's should come in at 5-6ft in the South West, 1-2ft in Mandurah (inconsistent) and 1-1.5ft across Perth, holding Monday morning with the secondary reinforcing pulse (could be more 4-6ft in the South West).

Winds on Monday should still be favourable and E/SE-SE through the morning with weaker sea breezes as a small trough siting west of us, pushes east.

Stronger E/SE winds should kick in on Tuesday as the swell eases, smaller Wednesday and Thursday but with great conditions through the mornings.

There's still nothing too major on the cards longer term so make the most of the good run of swell and conditions. Have a great weekend!