Swellnet Analysis

It has to be said, if you don't score decent waves this Easter, you're not trying hard enough!

The Australian continent will be bathed in swell ranging from the large and dangerous in Western and Southern Australia, to the still solid but more sublime on the East Coast.

Before the internet, surf forecasting was a rudimentary art consisting of equal parts science, intuition, and sheer pot luck. Swells would often appear from no apparent source,

Now we can predict those 'mysto' swells, and there's one coming later this weekend.

After an extreme cold snap, the US media are making claims that this event is linked to anthropogenic global warming. Sceptics suggest that it's clear evidence that global warming is nonsense, while believers explain the cold wave as another example of extreme weather forced by increased greenhouse gases.

The truth? Both are wrong.

Tonga is expected to see large swell from the north and potentially a follow up swell from the south as the system drifts south in close proximity to the Polynesian island. The southern coasts of Fiji will also see medium to large levels of SE swell through this weekend.

2014 is set to start with a bang across the North Atlantic with back-to-back XXL swells, the second of which looks to be the biggest swell event in quite some time.