Western Australia Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Wednesday 28th February)

Best Days: Protected spots Friday, Saturday morning, Sunday and Monday mornings across the South West

Recap

A fun increase in new swell with favourable winds across Mandurah and Perth yesterday morning, poor and onshore across the South West but solid into the afternoon.

The swell eased back into this morning from 3-5ft across the South West and 1-2ft in Mandurah, 1-1.5ft in Perth though with much better offshore winds.

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This week and weekend (Mar 1 – 4)

The current swell will continue to ease back through tomorrow, though a dawn SE offshore will give into a S/SE tending S/SW breeze mid-morning across the South West with surf in the 3ft range. Perth and Mandurah will be cleaner but tiny.

Later in the day tomorrow some new long-range SW groundswell should fill in, peaking Friday across the region.

This was generated by a strong small polar low in the Heard Island region over the weekend and should come in at a good but infrequent 4-6ft across the South West, 2ft in Mandurah and 1-1.5ft in Perth.

Conditions won't be ideal with a S/SE breeze across all locations.

The swell will ease through the weekend, but this will be slowed by some reinforcing SW swell generated by a small weak front that's currently west-southwest of us.

A fetch of strong W/SW-SW winds are being projected towards us and this should produce 3-5ft of swell for Saturday morning across the South West, easing slowly during the day, back from the 3ft range Sunday morning.

Mandurah looks to only be small and to 1-2ft, with fading 1-1.5ft sets in Perth.

Conditions will be much better though with a SE (possibly tending E/SE at times) offshore Saturday morning and E'ly winds Sunday morning.

Next week onwards (Mar 5 onwards)

As touched on in Monday's updates, next week is looking small as a blocking high to our west puts a lid on any major storm activity.

Monday will be clean at magnets but only small with some small possible new swell later in the week. More on this Friday.