In the coming week a rare event will take place in the North Pacific ocean: effectively every country in the region - from the Solomon Islands clockwise around to Mexico - will receive swell from a sole source.
Super Typhoon Neoguri is currently bearing down on Japan spawning waves of jaw dropping size. Read more about this most impressive of storms.
With the Chinese New Year having just been celebrated - Happy Year of the Horse everyone! - winter swells are still sliding in. Clean winds and clear conditions are the order of most days with plenty of surf time on offer
With the Chinese New Year having just been celebrated - Happy Year of the Horse everyone! - winter swells are still sliding in. Clean winds and clear conditions are the order of most days with plenty of surf time on offer
While Australian surfers wait for their cyclone season to begin, the Western Pacific basin has been very active. The latest storm to impact the region is Super Typhoon Francisco and it's expected to push across the Ryukyu Islands of southern Japan today.
Such is the enormity of this typhoon, wind speeds are forecast to gust to 280km/h around the centre of Soulik as the pressure bottoms out at a phenomenal 915hPa this evening.
