Western Australian Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday February 5th)

Best Days: Swell magnets tomorrow morning and Friday/Saturday morning

Features of the Forecast (tl;dr)

• Fading mid-period SW swell tomorrow with E/SE winds ahead of sea breezes
• Small pulse of weak swell Fri with light-mod E/SE winds ahead of sea breezes
• Fading swell on the weekend with fresh E/NE-NE tending NW winds

Recap

The surf increased in size on Saturday but with less favourable winds for exposed spots, smaller and cleaner inside southern corners, while yesterday remained average thanks to S'ly winds.

Perth and Mandurah were mostly tiny and only really doable for the desperate and beginners.

Today the surf was still tiny but cleaner across Perth and Mandurah with bumpy waves across the South West.

This week and weekend (Feb 6 - 11)

Unfortunately, the coming week and beyond remains void of any major swell generating systems in the Indian or Southern Oceans.

This will see the metro locations bottom out in size while the South West magnets may offer the odd wave for the desperate.

Tomorrow looks cleaner with a moderate E/SE breeze but fading mid-period SW swell from the 3ft range across those magnets.

A tropical low drifting south-east through the Indian Ocean doesn't look great for any swell production at all now. Only a little pulse from this low was expected Thursday/Friday but this now looks to come in at 2-3ft max on Friday in the South West.

Conditions will be clean again with a light E/SE offshore but the swell will be weak and powerless.

The weekend will be void of any swell as well with morning E/NE-NE offshores but nothing of note swell wise.

Moving into next week, there's still not much to work with, with a mix of a mid-latitude low and Southern Ocean front likely to bring some swell mid-late week but to no major size and with poor S/SE winds.

So all in all things are quiet at the moment with better surf hopefully to come into autumn.