Western Australia Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 28th May)

Best Days: Perth and Mandurah tomorrow morning, Friday, Saturday and Sunday mornings all locations

Recap

Very large stormy conditions on Saturday across all regions with strong to gale-force onshore winds and options in novelty spots.

The swell and wind settled down a bit into yesterday, while today we've still got plenty of swell across the state with better more variable winds in Perth and Mandurah.

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This week and weekend (May 29 – Jun 3)

Our window of clean conditions tomorrow across the South West looks very small, if at all.

An approaching front is due to bring NW winds by 7am or so, with a dawn NE'ly possible, longer lasting around Mandurah and Perth.

Swell wise a new reinforcing pulse of SW groundswell should keep the South West around 6ft to occasionally 8ft, 2-3ft in Mandurah and 2ft in Perth, easing back through Wednesday.

Winds on Wednesday are again not ideal, moderate to fresh out of the N/NE, tending more N/NW through the day, creating poor conditions.

Onshore winds will persist Thursday as a weak front pushes up and into us bringing gusty NW tending W/SW winds and an increase in swell.

It'll be mostly weak windswell and mid-period energy, growing our in power through Friday while peaking in size.

The fronts generating this swell are patchy at best though we should still see surf to 6ft to maybe 8ft across the South West, 2-3ft in Mandurah and 2ft Perth with possible variable winds (light E across Perth and Mandurah). Our models are combining all the varying swells and over-forecasting Friday's size.

A more consolidated fetch of W/SW gales projecting towards us through the end of the week looks to generate a better SW groundswell for the weekend, building Saturday and peaking early Sunday.

The swell looks similar in size to Friday's but more organised with possible lingering onshore winds as it builds Saturday across the South West, and better offshores Sunday morning.

We may see another slightly smaller swell for early next week, but we'll have a closer look at this on Wednesday.