Western Australia Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 12th February)

Best Days:

Recap

Clean fun waves around 3ft Saturday morning with a building S/SW swell, easing Sunday with OK winds again. Further north the surf was clean but tiny.

This morning we've got clean fun surf with a building S/SW groundswell across the South West and tiny waves to the north.

We should see the S/SW groundswell that's currently building reaching 6ft+ late today around Margs but sea breezes are creating bumpy conditions.

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This week and weekend (Feb 13 - 18)

Later today's increase in S/SW groundswell was generated late last week and over the weekend by a strong polar low projecting from south of Heard Island up towards the Bight.

We should see sets hitting 6ft+ late today around Margs, easing back from a similar size tomorrow morning with 2ft+ waves around Mandurah and 1-2ft sets in Perth.

Unfortunately winds are still looking poor with a possible dawn S'ly swinging SW-S/SW shortly after.

Wednesday is still the pick of the week as a high moves in quickly from the west swinging winds offshore out of the E/SE along with a reinforcing S/SW swell from a front pushing up towards us tomorrow.

We should see this swell peaking into the afternoon to 4-6ft across South West magnets (a touch smaller early) 1-2ft in Mandurah but tiny in Perth.

Thursday will then see the swell easing from 4-5ft across Margs with favourable offshore E/SE winds again ahead of sea breezes.

Friday looks a little less favourable as winds swing back to the SE and the swell becomes smaller.

Saturday is looking average at this stage with S/SE winds as we fall in between swells, but later in the day and more so Sunday morning, a new inconsistent SW groundswell is due.

This has been generated by a strong polar frontal system south of South Africa which is currently weakening west of Heard Island.

The distant will result in an inconsistent and only small to moderate sized groundswell, with Margs due to see 3-5ft sets Sunday morning, tiny to the north with a morning E/SE offshore, but more on this Wednesday.