Western Australia Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Monday 23rd March)

Best Days: Swell magnets in the South West tomorrow morning, Wednesday morning, Thursday morning, Friday morning and Saturday mornings

Recap

Average conditions Saturday with strong winds and a small swell, improving into yesterday with cleaner conditions and fun waves on the South West swell magnets. Perth and Mandurah remained clean and tiny all weekend.

Today the surf is small and clean again, best on the South West magnets.

This week and weekend (Mar 24 - 29)

We've still got a slow forecast period ahead with the storm track unfavourably aligned for the coming couple of weeks.

Any swell seen today will back off through tomorrow with fading 2-3ft sets on the South West swell magnets, tiny to flat to the north.

Winds will be favourable for exposed breaks tomorrow morning though with a light to moderate E/NE breeze, tending variable NW, while E/NE tending N winds are due Wednesday with a small pulse of new S/SW groundswell.

The source of this swell is a late forming low in our swell window, just south of us today.

A fetch of W/SW gales were just generated before it moved too east, with a little kick in swell on the south swell magnets expected Wednesday morning to 3-4ft on the sets, easing Thursday with a light morning NE offshore.

Continued weak and unfavourably aligned polar frontal activity will generate small pulses of mid-period swell for late week and the weekend.

Size wise we're not looking at anything really over 3-4ft in the South West Friday afternoon and Saturday with offshore winds on the former and onshore breezes Saturday. This onshore change Saturday is linked to a slightly better swell for Sunday/Monday but we'll have a closer look at this on Wednesday.