What's New: How Your Forecast Is Changing

First thing you'll notice with the new site is some changes to the styling, but that's not really what we want to talk about here. We hope it makes the site easier on the eye and easier to navigate but we know from past changes some people will like it others not - fundamentally we haven't changed anything we hope was working, your experience navigating and using the site should be pretty much as it was.

More importantly at the heart of the website we've made some important changes to the forecast. To understand and adjust to them you'll need to read this, although the changes are in some respects relatively minor they should really improve your forecast IF you know what to look out for. We know from our own experience now exactly what conditions to check for to make a decent wave at our local beach, likewise for every spot we list if the forecast changes that call will change slightly and you need to understand how it's changed to take it into account.

Your Feedback

Updated 22nd Jan We have been finding some locations where the new data is showing some strange results - perhaps it's over estimating the shadow of a local headland or island and with a small adjustment we can fix this and really improve the forecast. If you are having trouble with the new data or any aspect of the changes please do email us (contact link is at the bottom of the page). As always we rely on surfers around the world to see what we can't and help us make MSW as useful and accurate as possible.

We've broken the new elements of the forecast down into just a few pages - it's not a long read but we'd really hope it'll be useful to everyone using the website.

High Resolution Data
Detailed Hourly Reports
Star Ratings
Tide View
Charts
Surf Map
MSW Local

Many thanks to everyone who sent feedback on the new site as we went through testing it and anyone with a constructive opinion on these changes now we'd be keen to hear from you, just post a comment below. As always this isn't the 'finished' version of the website - we're working every day to try to continue improving how it works and what we can offer.

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