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Charleston ratings
Quality on a good day: 5.0
Consistency of surf: 3.0
Difficulty level: 3.0
Crowds: 4.0

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Charleston Surf Forecast / New-Zealand – West Coast / New Zealand

48hr Weather and Surf Issued (local time): 06 am Thursday 16 Feb 2012

Charleston 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 (?) 1.1
SW 		0.8
SW 		0.9
SW 		1.4
SW 		1.6
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WSW 		1.4
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SW
Period (s) (?) 11 15 15 14 14 14 14 13 13 13 13 12 12 12 12 12 12 12
Surfscale
Wave
Graph
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Max-energy 273 284 365 846 988 920 893 820 689 658 647 521 496 414 407 355 314 309
Wind
(km/h) 		10 E 10 E 10 E 5 NW 15 W 15 WSW 5 WSW 5 N 5 ENE 5 ENE 5 NNE 5 W 15 SW 15 SSW 15 S 10 S 10 SSE 10 SSE
Wind State (?) off off cross-
off		 on on cross-
on		 cross-
on		 glass glass cross-
off		 glass cross-
on		 cross-
on		 cross cross-
off		 cross-
off		 cross-
off		 cross-
off
Key to wind character - offshore winds at Charleston blow from the ESE
onshore cross-onshore cross-shore cross-offshore offshore glassy
Tide State (?) flow high ebb low flow flow high ebb low flow high ebb low flow high ebb low flow
High Tide
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6:19AM
2.72



7:02PM
2.72


7:36AM
2.73


8:14PM
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Low Tide
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12:42PM
0.84



1:17AM
0.88


1:57PM
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2:30AM
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Note: the tide data above is for Westport, New Zealand which is 21 km away. Surf properties and timing are calculated for Charleston. New forecast is published every 6 hours at www.surf-forecast.com. See detailed tide info and graph.
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Today's Charleston sea temperature is 17.6 °C (Statistics for 16 Feb 1981-2005 - mean: 18.1 max: 20.3 min: 16.2 °C)
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Summary clear clear clear clear clear clear clear clear clear clear some clouds clear some clouds clear clear clear clear clear
Rain (mm) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Temp. °C 15 14 17 20 20 19 18 17 16 16 17 19 19 18 16 16 15 15
Chill °C (?) 15 13 17 20 20 19 18 17 16 16 17 19 19 18 15 16 14 15
Sunrise - 6:56 - - - - - - - 6:58 - - - - - - - 6:58
Sunset - - - - - 20:37 - - - - - - - 20:37 - - - -
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