Western Australia Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday June 26th)

Best Days: Tomorrow morning for the desperate in the South West, but more so Wednesday and early Thursday, beginners Perth and Mandurah tomorrow AM and Wednesday

Features of the Forecast (tl;dr)

• Small, inconsistent W/SW groundswell building later tomorrow, peaking Wed with E tending variable winds
• Easing surf Thu with moderate E/NE tending variable winds

Recap

The swell was still large and onshore across the South West Saturday morning, better to the north with cleaner (though not perfect), easing surf from 3ft around Mandurah and 2-3ft in Perth.

Yesterday was smaller but cleaner, easing back from a semi-clean 4-6ft in the South West, 2ft in Mandurah and 1-2ft across Perth.

Today conditions are cleaner again but still a little lumpy in the South West and to 3-5ft, hanging in at 2ft across Perth and Mandurah.

This week and weekend (Jun 27 – Jul 2)

We've got a clean week of surf ahead with morning offshores ahead of weak if any afternoon sea breezes, along with some small, inconsistent pulses of swell.

Today's energy will ease into tomorrow morning leaving infrequent 3ft waves across the South West with 1-1.5ft sets max to the north, with a very inconsistent W/SW groundswell due to arrive later in the day, peaking Wednesday.

This swell, discussed last week was generated to the south of South Africa and Madagascar (pictured left), with sets to 4ft due in the South West Wednesday, mixed in with the rare 5ft'er and 1ft to possibly 1.5ft in Perth and Mandurah.

A morning E-E/SE offshore is due tomorrow ahead of weak sea breezes (fresher in the South West), E tending variable Wednesday.

The swell is expected to ease Thursday with E/NE tending variable winds, bottoming out Friday and Saturday with freshening NE winds Friday, stronger NE tending N on Saturday ahead of a strong mid-latitude frontal progression.

This looks to be the next wave of strong onshore winds, rain and swell with it having a bit more west and strength to it. This looks to produce the first proper swell episode for Indonesia as well, but keep an eye out tomorrow for the updated Indonesian region Forecaster Notes.

For us, this episode looks to be in for a week at least, if not two, but we'll have a closer look at this Wednesday.