Recent Eyeball Surf Reports for QLD - Gold Coast
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Coolum:
‘Coolum surf: 15-20 knots ESE. The SE swell is smaller in the 2ft on the more open beaches and around 1-2ft in the S corners and it's overcast with light showers. The winds are fresh S early and are forecast to go ESE later. The tide is coming in to a high at 10.20am, then dropping to a low at 4.15pm.’
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The swell is only small, but clean from the ESE this morning in the 1 up to 2ft range on the more open beaches, almost flat in the S corners and a touch bigger on the far N end of the coast. The winds are light offshore W early and are forecast to go SW later. The tide is dropping to a low at 9.10am, coming in to a high just before 4pm. Very small ones along the open E facing beachies on the incoming tide this morning with mid to late morning the pick and a bit more size from Coolum to A Bay.
Secret spot?We can hide it! Main Beach Surf Forecast / QLD – Gold Coast / Australia48hr Weather and Surf, issued 3 am Wednesday 19 Jun 2013 ESTMain Beach surf forecast is for near shore open water. Breaking waves will often be smaller at less exposed spots. |
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| Energy (?) | 75 | 108 | 80 | 130 | 66 | 101 | 116 | 560 | 372 | 137 | 117 | 103 | 110 | 103 | 103 | 101 | 147 | 147 | ||||||
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| Tide State (?) | low | flow | high | ebb | low | flow | high | ebb | low | flow | high | ebb | low | flow | flow | high | ebb | low | ||||||
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5:00AM 1.68 |
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6:05PM 1.93 |
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6:08AM 1.67 |
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7:04PM 2.11 |
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Low Tide / height (m) |
11:12PM 0.65 |
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11:35AM 0.26 |
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12:27AM 0.58 |
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12:33PM 0.19 |
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1:36AM 0.47 |
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Note: the tide data above is for Brisbane Bar, Australia which is 40 km away. Surf properties and timing are calculated for Main Beach. New forecast is published every 6 hours at www.surf-forecast.com. See detailed tide info and graph
Key to wind character - offshore winds at Main Beach blow from the WNW
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Today's Main Beach sea temperature is 22.1 °C (Statistics for 19 Jun 1981-2005 - mean: 22.1 max: 23.3 min: 21.1 °C) |
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| Summary | clear | clear | clear | clear | clear | clear | clear | clear | clear | clear | some clouds | clear | some clouds | some clouds | rain shwrs | rain shwrs | light rain | light rain | ||||||
| Rain (mm) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | ||||||
| Temp. °C | 14 | 13 | 13 | 14 | 16 | 16 | 17 | 17 | 16 | 15 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 16 | 16 | 15 | ||||||
| Chill °C (?) | 12 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 14 | 14 | 15 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 14 | ||||||
| Sunrise | - | - | 6:35 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6:35 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||||
| Sunset | - | - | - | - | 16:59 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 16:59 | - | - | - | - | - | ||||||
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