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4:09 pm 22 Nov 2011

Off shore Sunday 18th Sepember, Rackwick

2:01 pm 18 Sep 2011

Grim Ness ratings
Quality on a good day: 4.0
Consistency of surf: 3.0
Crowds: 4.0

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Grim Ness Surf Forecast / Scotland – Orkney / UK

48hr Weather and Surf Issued (local time): 05 am Wednesday 15 Feb 2012

Grim Ness 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 (?) 1.6
NNW
1.7
NNW
1.6
NNW
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0.7
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Period (s) (?) 8 8 8 10 8 9 11 10 10 10 10 10 10 9 9 12 12 9
Surfscale
Wave
Graph

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Max-energy 292 327 326 470 66 73 57 102 74 52 33 19 18 17 17 22 22 14
Wind
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65
NW 60
NW 65
NW 60
NW 60
WNW 60
WNW 60
W 55
W 55
WSW 65
WSW 45
W 35
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W 45
WNW 45
WNW 40
W 45
W 45
W
Wind State (?) cross-
off
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Key to wind character - offshore winds at Grim Ness blow from the WSW
onshore cross-onshore cross-shore cross-offshore offshore glassy
Tide State (?) flow high ebb low flow high ebb low flow high ebb ebb low flow high ebb low flow
High Tide
/ height (m)

4:28AM
2.99



5:07PM
3.01



5:40AM
2.88




6:33PM
2.90



Low Tide
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10:25AM
1.31



11:26PM
1.36




12:09PM
1.38



12:59AM
1.43

 

Note: the tide data above is for Wick, Scotland which is 44 km away. Surf properties and timing are calculated for Grim Ness. New forecast is published every 6 hours at www.surf-forecast.com. See detailed tide info and graph.

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Today's Grim Ness sea temperature is 6.9 °C (Statistics for 15 Feb 1981-2005 - mean: 7.3 max: 8.3 min: 6.0 °C)

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Rain (mm) - - - - - - - - - 1 1 - - - - - - -
Temp. °C 8 8 8 8 8 7 7 7 8 7 8 8 8 8 7 7 7 7
Chill °C (?) 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 2 1 3 4 3 3 2 2 2 2
Sunrise - - 7:47 - - - - - - - 7:43 - - - - - - -
Sunset - - - - 17:05 - - - - - - - 17:07 - - - - -
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