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El Capitan ratings
Quality on a good day: 4.7
Consistency of surf: 2.0
Difficulty level: 4.0
Wind and kite surfing: 1.0
Crowds: 3.0

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El Capitan Surf Forecast / California – Santa Barbara / USA

48hr Weather and Surf Issued (local time): 03 am Saturday 04 Feb 2012

El Capitan 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 (?) 1.9
WNW 		2.0
WNW 		2.2
WNW 		2.5
WNW 		2.5
WNW 		3.0
WNW 		3.0
WNW 		3.0
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WNW
Period (s) (?) 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 13 13 13 14 14 14 14 14 14 13
Surfscale
Wave
Graph
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Max-energy 1435 1578 1929 2412 2752 2898 3006 2962 2875 2651 2412 2713 2791 2675 2418 2383 2348 2148
Wind
(km/h) 		15 ENE 15 E 15 E 15 E 10 ESE 0 SE 10 N 15 NE 15 ENE 15 ENE 10 E 10 E 5 SE 5 SW 5 NW 5 ENE 5 ESE 10 ESE
Wind State (?) cross-
off		 cross cross-
off		 cross cross-
on		 glass off cross-
off		 cross-
off		 cross-
off		 cross cross cross-
on		 glass glass glass glass cross-
on
Key to wind character - offshore winds at El Capitan blow from the N
onshore cross-onshore cross-shore cross-offshore offshore glassy
Tide State (?) low flow flow high ebb low flow high ebb low flow high ebb low flow high ebb low
High Tide
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7:05AM
1.61


8:53PM
1.07


7:44AM
1.71


9:17PM
1.15

Low Tide
/ height (m) 		12:50AM
0.67



2:21PM
-0.14


1:32AM
0.58


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-0.23


2:11AM
0.49
 

Note: the tide data above is for Gaviota, California which is 18 km away. Surf properties and timing are calculated for El Capitan. New forecast is published every 6 hours at www.surf-forecast.com. See detailed tide info and graph.
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Today's El Capitan sea temperature is 13.1 °C (Statistics for 04 Feb 1981-2005 - mean: 13.7 max: 15.4 min: 12.0 °C)
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Summary clear clear clear clear clear clear clear clear clear clear clear clear clear clear clear clear some clouds some clouds
Rain (mm) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Temp. °C 16 16 16 17 19 19 17 17 16 16 15 17 19 19 17 17 17 16
Chill °C (?) 15 15 15 17 19 19 17 16 15 15 14 17 19 19 17 17 17 16
Sunrise - - 6:54 - - - - - - - 6:54 - - - - - - -
Sunset - - - - - 17:31 - - - - - - - 17:32 - - - -
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