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Shaun Streeter, Haumoana River Mouth

Haumoana River Mouth

6:50 am 9 Feb 2012

Dumps Drop, Dumpers

Dumpers

3:52 pm 27 Dec 2008

Backwash ratings
Quality on a good day: 3.0
Consistency of surf: 4.5
Difficulty level: 3.0
Wind and kite surfing: 2.0
Crowds: 3.5

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Backwash Surf Forecast / Costa-Rica – Golfo Dulce / Costa Rica

48hr Weather and Surf Issued (local time): 12 pm Wednesday 15 Feb 2012

Backwash surf forecast is for near shore open water. Breaking waves will often be smaller at less exposed spots.

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Largest waves (m) & direction (?) 0.9
SSW 		0.9
SSW 		0.7
SSW 		0.7
SSW 		1.0
SSW 		0.9
SSW 		1.0
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SSW
Period (s) (?) 12 12 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13
Surfscale
Wave
Graph
(?)
Max-energy 248 244 218 215 437 281 407 269 265 261 257 253 246 242 242 238 235 183
Wind
(km/h) 		5 NE 10 SSE 15 SSW 10 WSW 5 NW 5 NNW 5 N 5 N 0 NW 10 SW 20 SW 15 W 10 WNW 10 NNW 5 NNE 5 NE 0 NE 10 SSW
Wind State (?) glass cross-
on		 cross cross-
off		 off cross-
off		 cross-
off		 glass glass cross cross-
off		 cross-
off		 off off glass cross glass cross-
on
Key to wind character - offshore winds at Backwash blow from the NW
onshore cross-onshore cross-shore cross-offshore offshore glassy
Tide State (?) high ebb low flow high ebb ebb flow high ebb low flow high ebb low flow high ebb
High Tide
/ height (m) 		7:17AM
0.44


7:56PM
0.08


8:05AM
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8:51PM
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8:54AM
0.44
Low Tide
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2:45PM
-0.09

12:48AM
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3:39PM
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1:34AM
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Note: the tide data above is for Bocas del Toro, Almirante Bay, Panama which is 153 km away. Surf properties and timing are calculated for Backwash. New forecast is published every 6 hours at www.surf-forecast.com. See detailed tide info and graph.
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Today's Backwash sea temperature is 29.3 °C (Statistics for 15 Feb 1981-2005 - mean: 29.1 max: 30.0 min: 27.6 °C)
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Summary clear clear clear clear clear clear clear clear clear clear clear rain shwrs clear clear clear clear clear clear
Rain (mm) - - - - - - - - - - - 1 - - - - - -
Temp. °C 27 29 29 27 26 25 25 24 27 29 28 27 26 25 25 24 27 28
Chill °C (?) 27 29 29 27 26 25 25 24 27 29 28 27 26 25 25 24 27 28
Sunrise - - - - - - - 6:50 - - - - - - - 6:50 - -
Sunset - - 18:43 - - - - - - - 18:43 - - - - - - -
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