Asked about the massive swells still hitting the Northern Hemisphere more than a month into winter, Surfline’s director of forecasting Kevin Wallis told DUKE that “there’s no real explanation for this other than the fact that big swells occasionally happen later or later in the season.”

Wallis did mention, however, that the La Niña phenomenon “may play a role,” “but what that role is, if it exists, remains unknown without further study.”

The expert said that after the super swell that took place in Mavericks on April 22, in which they say the biggest wave of the year broke, he spoke with locals who told him that “the last time they remember a swell of that size in Mavericks was in May 1999 or 2000, coincidentally both years felt the La Niña phenomenon; sometimes called 'double-dip La Niña', which is what we are in now,” he said.

In recent weeks there has been a series of swells that broke Mavericks and several waves in the Hawaiian archipelago. At the same time, the famous Roka Puta in the Basque Country also broke.

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And Roka Puta broke:

 

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