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Motunau Beach ratings
Quality on a good day: 3.0
Consistency of surf: 3.0
Crowds: 4.0

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Motunau Beach Surf Forecast / New-Zealand – Canterbury / New Zealand

48hr Weather and Surf Issued (local time): 11 am Tuesday 05 Jun 2012

Motunau Beach 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 (?) 0.7
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Period (s) (?) 16 15 16 16 16 15 16 7 8 8 8 6 6 6 6 17 9 9
Surfscale
Wave
Graph
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Max-energy 231 228 314 309 301 377 386 572 582 488 355 123 120 91 79 559 97 55
Wind
(km/h) 		15 NNW 15 NNW 20 N 15 NE 10 SSW 40 SW 30 SW 25 SW 15 SW 10 SSW 20 SSW 10 S 10 S 15 SSW 20 SSW 20 SW 15 W 15 W
Wind State (?) cross-
off		 cross-
off		 cross-
off		 cross-
off		 on on cross-
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on		 on on on on on on on cross-
on		 cross-
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on
Key to wind character - offshore winds at Motunau Beach blow from the NNE
onshore cross-onshore cross-shore cross-offshore offshore glassy
Tide State (?) ebb low flow high ebb low flow high ebb low flow flow high ebb low flow high ebb
High Tide
/ height (m)


5:07PM
2.69


5:35AM
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6:04PM
2.69


6:33AM
2.51
Low Tide
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10:49AM
0.21


11:27PM
0.22


11:46AM
0.19



12:23AM
0.22


 

Note: the tide data above is for Lyttelton, New Zealand which is 67 km away. Surf properties and timing are calculated for Motunau Beach. New forecast is published every 6 hours at www.surf-forecast.com. See detailed tide info and graph.
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Today's Motunau Beach sea temperature is 11.5 °C (Statistics for 05 Jun 1981-2005 - mean: 10.5 max: 11.6 min: 9.7 °C)
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Rain (mm) - - - 4 2 2 4 2 6 6 4 1 1 - 1 1 - -
Temp. °C 11 14 15 12 11 8 5 5 4 5 4 4 5 5 4 4 4 5
Chill °C (?) 9 13 14 10 10 3 0 1 1 2 0 1 3 2 0 0 0 2
Sunrise 7:52 - - - - - - - 7:52 - - - - - - - 7:52 -
Sunset - - 17:00 - - - - - - - 16:59 - - - - - - -
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