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Backyards ratings
Quality on a good day: 3.0
Consistency of surf: 3.0
Difficulty level: 3.0
Crowds: 3.0

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Backyards Surf Forecast / Canada – East Shore / Canada

48hr Weather and Surf Issued (local time): 01 am Wednesday 15 Feb 2012

Backyards 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 (?) 0.3
ESE
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Period (s) (?) 9 9 9 9 5 4 4 6 6 6 7 7 7 7 7 11 11 11
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Max-energy 17 16 15 15 27 12 19 20 14 6 18 26 24 26 30 42 61 110
Wind
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25
SSE 20
SSE 20
SSE 15
SSE 10
SE 5
E 10
NNE 20
NNE 20
NNE 20
N 20
N 25
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N 15
NNW 15
N 10
NNW
Wind State (?) on on on on on cross-
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Key to wind character - offshore winds at Backyards blow from the NNW
onshore cross-onshore cross-shore cross-offshore offshore glassy
Tide State (?) - - flow ebb low flow flow ebb low flow high ebb low flow high ebb low flow
High Tide
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1:54PM
1.52




2:20AM
1.68



3:17PM
1.48



Low Tide
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8:37AM
0.37



8:57PM
0.56



9:42AM
0.36



10:03PM
0.57

 

Note: the tide data above is for Halifax, Nova Scotia which is 15 km away. Surf properties and timing are calculated for Backyards. New forecast is published every 6 hours at www.surf-forecast.com. See detailed tide info and graph.

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Today's Backyards sea temperature is 1.7 °C (Statistics for 15 Feb 1981-2005 - mean: 0.6 max: 2.1 min: -0.6 °C)

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Rain (mm) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Temp. °C 3 4 4 4 5 6 6 4 2 1 0 0 1 2 1 -1 -2 -3
Chill °C (?) -2 0 0 1 3 5 4 0 -2 -4 -5 -6 -5 -3 -4 -6 -7 -7
Sunrise - - - 7:13 - - - - - - - 7:13 - - - - - -
Sunset - - - - - 17:40 - - - - - - - 17:42 - - - -
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