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

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Margate Surf Forecast / South-Africa – Hibiscus Coast / South Africa

48hr Weather and Surf Issued (local time): 07 am Wednesday 15 Feb 2012

Margate 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 (?) 1.4
SW 		1.9
SSW 		1.1
SSW 		1.3
SSW 		1.6
SSW 		1.7
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SSW 		1.6
SSW 		1.8
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SSW
Period (s) (?) 13 12 13 14 14 14 14 13 13 13 14 14 13 13 13 13 12 12
Surfscale
Wave
Graph
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Max-energy 647 1134 389 742 996 1083 1023 863 1089 1106 1122 1122 1089 865 745 722 618 575
Wind
(km/h) 		35 SW 30 SSW 25 SSW 20 SSE 15 SSE 10 SSE 5 SSE 5 SSE 5 ESE 5 E 10 E 15 E 10 ENE 10 ENE 10 NE 5 ENE 5 SE 5 SSE
Wind State (?) cross-
off		 cross-
off		 cross-
off		 cross cross cross cross-
on		 cross-
on		 glass glass on on on on cross-
on		 glass glass glass
Key to wind character - offshore winds at Margate blow from the W
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
High Tide
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8:51AM
1.51


9:34PM
1.36


10:51AM
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12:10AM
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Low Tide
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3:19PM
0.85


4:00AM
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5:42PM
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6:29AM
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Note: the tide data above is for Durban, South Africa which is 128 km away. Surf properties and timing are calculated for Margate. New forecast is published every 6 hours at www.surf-forecast.com. See detailed tide info and graph.
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Today's Margate sea temperature is 26.1 °C (Statistics for 15 Feb 1981-2005 - mean: 25.6 max: 26.9 min: 24.3 °C)
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Rain (mm) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Temp. °C 25 25 25 25 24 23 23 23 23 23 25 26 25 24 24 24 24 24
Chill °C (?) 25 25 25 25 24 23 23 23 23 23 25 26 25 24 24 24 24 24
Sunrise - 5:37 - - - - - - - 5:37 - - - - - - - 5:37
Sunset - - - - 18:46 - - - - - - - 18:45 - - - - -
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