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Hickory Bay

10:58 am 28 Jan 2012

Riverton Rocks, Colac Bay

2:12 am 22 Feb 2011

Magnet Bay ratings
Quality on a good day: 4.0
Consistency of surf: 4.0
Difficulty level: 4.3
Wind and kite surfing: 1.0
Crowds: 3.0

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Magnet Bay Surf Forecast / New Zealand

48hr Weather and Surf Issued (local time): 18 pm Wednesday 15 Feb 2012

Magnet Bay 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
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Surfscale
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Max-energy 191 188 149 154 196 566 602 563 523 418 318 232 209 156 139 104 68 64
Wind
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15
SSE 15
SE 5
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S 0
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SSW 5
ESE 10
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Key to wind character - offshore winds at Magnet Bay blow from the NE
onshore cross-onshore cross-shore cross-offshore offshore glassy
Tide State (?) ebb low flow high ebb low flow high ebb low flow high ebb low flow high ebb ebb
High Tide
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11:25PM
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11:52AM
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12:21AM
2.80



12:46PM
2.69


Low Tide
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5:14PM
0.53



5:48AM
0.62



6:09PM
0.54



6:46AM
0.61




 

Note: the tide data above is for Akaroa, New Zealand which is 12 km away. Surf properties and timing are calculated for Magnet Bay. New forecast is published every 6 hours at www.surf-forecast.com. See detailed tide info and graph.

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Today's Magnet Bay sea temperature is 14.6 °C (Statistics for 15 Feb 1981-2005 - mean: 14.9 max: 17.3 min: 13.4 °C)

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Temp. °C 14 14 13 13 13 13 13 14 14 14 13 13 13 13 14 16 17 16
Chill °C (?) 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 12 11 11 11 11 12 15 16 14
Sunrise - - - - - 6:48 - - - - - - - 6:48 - - - -
Sunset - 20:37 - - - - - - - 20:36 - - - - - - - 20:35
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