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Breaker Bay

Breaker Bay

6:17 pm 28 Feb 2012

Hickory Bay

Hickory Bay

10:58 am 28 Jan 2012


Punakaiki ratings
Quality on a good day: 5.0
Consistency of surf: 4.0
Difficulty level: 3.0
Wind and kite surfing: 1.0
Crowds: 4.5

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Punakaiki Surf Forecast / New-Zealand – West Coast / New Zealand

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

Punakaiki 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 (?) 1.5
WSW 		1.4
WSW 		1.3
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SW 		1.3
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WSW
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Surfscale
Wave
Graph
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Max-energy 808 659 572 517 626 1059 1235 3575 5227 5855 5725 5104 4701 4060 3486 3178 3192 1141
Wind
(km/h) 		20 NE 30 NNE 25 NE 30 ENE 35 NNE 30 NNW 30 NNW 35 N 15 N 15 ESE 20 ESE 25 SE 20 SE 15 SSE 15 SSE 15 SSE 15 SE 10 SE
Wind State (?) off cross-
off		 cross-
off		 off cross-
off		 cross cross cross-
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off
Key to wind character - offshore winds at Punakaiki blow from the ENE
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 flow
High Tide
/ height (m)
11:06AM
3.50


11:28PM
3.54


12:00PM
3.48



12:20AM
3.51


Low Tide
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5:17PM
0.47


5:43AM
0.42



6:09PM
0.53


6:35AM
0.50
 

Note: the tide data above is for Greymouth, New Zealand which is 37 km away. Surf properties and timing are calculated for Punakaiki. New forecast is published every 6 hours at www.surf-forecast.com. See detailed tide info and graph.
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Today's Punakaiki sea temperature is 14.7 °C (Statistics for 05 Jun 1981-2005 - mean: 13.9 max: 15.4 min: 12.4 °C)
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Summary rain shwrs some clouds light rain heavy rain mod rain rain shwrs rain shwrs heavy rain heavy rain heavy rain heavy rain mod rain light rain light rain some clouds some clouds clear clear
Rain (mm) 1 - 5 11 9 12 11 23 34 22 13 7 4 2 - - - -
Temp. °C 11 13 12 12 14 15 15 14 12 10 8 7 6 7 8 7 7 9
Chill °C (?) 8 11 9 9 12 13 13 11 10 8 5 3 3 4 5 5 4 7
Sunrise 7:56 - - - - - - - 7:56 - - - - - - - 7:56 -
Sunset - - 17:09 - - - - - - - 17:08 - - - - - - -
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