The Australia Day long weekend is fast approaching and for most this means a whole weekend based around the beach and surf. So how's the forecast shaping up for your region?

All signals are go for what looks to be the biggest swell of the season so far across Hawaii mid-next week.

With less than week to go until the waiting period of the Billabong Pipe Masters, all eyes are fixed on the charts. Will the World Title showdown get swell befitting the occasion?

The World Tour scored excellent waves at the resurrected J-Bay Pro so high hopes surround the next event on tour, the Billabong Pro Tahiti. So, will there be swell?!

The largest swell so far this year is currently bearing down on the Indonesian Archipelago and beyond.

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.

Compared to the large swell that hit Hawaii mid-December, which developed just west of the international date-line and fell short of Eddie requirements, this next swell will be far larger and more consistent due to the closer proximity to Oahu

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.

This weekend, while most eyes will be on pumping 10 foot Pipeline and the showdown between Mick and Kelly, a much larger swell will be forming in the Western North Pacific Ocean.