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Te Awanga Mid Tide Corner

1:23 pm 5 Nov 2011

Tora, Wairarapa, Tora Point

12:00 am 23 Dec 2011

Papatowai ratings
Quality on a good day: 5.0
Consistency of surf: 2.0
Difficulty level: 4.0
Crowds: 4.0

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Papatowai Surf Forecast / New-Zealand – Catlins / New Zealand

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

Papatowai 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
SSW
0.7
SSW
1.0
SSW
1.4
SSW
1.4
SSW
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SSW
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0.9
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0.8
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0.7
SW
0.7
SSW
Period (s) (?) 11 16 15 14 14 14 13 13 13 13 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12
Surfscale
Wave
Graph

(?)
Max-energy 176 229 439 834 777 693 586 577 476 389 355 288 269 218 215 171 137 117
Wind
(km/h)
15
SSW 10
S 5
SSE 0
ENE 5
NNE 5
N 5
N 5
E 15
E 15
ENE 15
NE 10
NNE 5
NW 10
WNW 10
WNW 5
WNW 0
SSE 5
SE
Wind State (?) cross-
off
cross cross-
on
glass glass cross glass on on on cross-
on
cross-
on
cross-
off
cross-
off
off off glass cross-
on
Key to wind character - offshore winds at Papatowai blow from the W
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 low
High Tide
/ height (m)



10:36PM
2.30



11:06AM
2.26



11:44PM
2.30



12:12PM
2.28


Low Tide
/ height (m)

4:14PM
0.86



4:45AM
0.93



5:21PM
0.86



5:54AM
0.93



6:27PM
0.83
 

Note: the tide data above is for Nugget Point, New Zealand which is 29 km away. Surf properties and timing are calculated for Papatowai. New forecast is published every 6 hours at www.surf-forecast.com. See detailed tide info and graph.

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Today's Papatowai sea temperature is 13.3 °C (Statistics for 15 Feb 1981-2005 - mean: 12.8 max: 14.8 min: 11.5 °C)

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Rain (mm) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Temp. °C 12 11 10 10 10 10 11 13 14 13 13 13 14 13 14 17 18 17
Chill °C (?) 10 10 9 10 10 9 11 13 13 11 12 13 14 12 13 17 18 17
Sunrise - - - - - 6:56 - - - - - - - 6:56 - - - -
Sunset - 20:57 - - - - - - - 20:54 - - - - - - - 20:52
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