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Tube ride in the morning, Zicatela

8:00 am 5 Feb 2012

Playa Valor ratings
Quality on a good day: 3.0
Consistency of surf: 2.0
Difficulty level: 4.0
Crowds: 3.0

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Playa Valor Surf Forecast / Costa Rica

48hr Weather and Surf Issued (local time): 23 pm Tuesday 14 Feb 2012

Playa Valor surf forecast is for near shore open water. Breaking waves will often be smaller at less exposed spots.

Rating 3
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Tue
 14
9PM
Wed
 15
0AM
Wed
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3AM
Wed
 15
6AM
Wed
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9AM
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12PM
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3PM
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9PM
Thu
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3AM
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6AM
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Thu
 16
9PM
Fri
 17
0AM
Largest waves (m) & direction (?) 1.1
S
1.0
S
1.0
S
0.9
SSW
0.9
SSW
0.8
SSW
0.8
SSW
0.6
SSW
0.6
SSW
0.8
SSW
0.6
SSW
0.9
SSW
0.7
SSW
0.7
SSW
0.7
SSW
0.7
SSW
0.7
SSW
0.7
SSW
Period (s) (?) 13 12 12 12 12 12 12 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 13 13 13
Surfscale
Wave
Graph

(?)
Max-energy 389 314 309 248 240 186 183 165 163 269 149 331 192 192 189 184 178 176
Wind
(km/h)
5
NE 5
NNE 5
NNE 5
NE 5
NNE 5
NNW 5
W 5
WSW 0
NNW 5
N 5
N 5
N 5
N 5
WNW 10
W 5
W 5
NNW 5
N
Wind State (?) off off off off off glass glass glass glass glass cross-
off
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Key to wind character - offshore winds at Playa Valor blow from the NE
onshore cross-onshore cross-shore cross-offshore offshore glassy
Tide State (?) flow ebb low flow high ebb low flow high ebb ebb low flow high ebb low flow high
High Tide
/ height (m)




8:24AM
2.39



8:53PM
2.58




9:32AM
2.27



10:03PM
2.46
Low Tide
/ height (m)


2:07AM
0.13



2:23PM
0.24




3:11AM
0.26



3:31PM
0.39


 

Note: the tide data above is for Puntarenas, Costa Rica which is 30 km away. Surf properties and timing are calculated for Playa Valor. New forecast is published every 6 hours at www.surf-forecast.com. See detailed tide info and graph.

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Today's Playa Valor sea temperature is 28.1 °C (Statistics for 14 Feb 1981-2005 - mean: 28.1 max: 29.6 min: 26.5 °C)

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Rain (mm) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Temp. °C 25 24 23 23 28 30 31 28 25 24 23 23 28 30 30 27 25 24
Chill °C (?) 25 24 23 23 28 30 31 28 25 24 23 23 28 30 30 27 25 24
Sunrise - - - 5:58 - - - - - - - 5:56 - - - - - -
Sunset - - - - - - 17:46 - - - - - - - 17:46 - - -
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