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Hickory Bay Barrel

5:30 pm 28 Jan 2012

Patiti Left, Patiti Point

3:36 pm 1 Jul 2011

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

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Smithfield Surf Forecast / New Zealand

48hr Weather and Surf Issued (local time): 06 am Thursday 16 Feb 2012

Smithfield 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 (?) 0.5
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Period (s) (?) 15 14 14 13 13 12 10 11 9 8 8 8 8 8 8 5 5 5
Surfscale
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Max-energy 115 102 132 167 117 110 31 60 41 35 32 20 20 13 13 19 8 3
Wind
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Key to wind character - offshore winds at Smithfield 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 ebb
High Tide
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11:23AM
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12:03AM
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12:27PM
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1:00AM
2.47


Low Tide
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5:17AM
0.76



5:32PM
0.58



6:24AM
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6:32PM
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Note: the tide data above is for Timaru Harbour, New Zealand which is 3 km away. Surf properties and timing are calculated for Smithfield. New forecast is published every 6 hours at www.surf-forecast.com. See detailed tide info and graph.

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Today's Smithfield sea temperature is 14.2 °C (Statistics for 16 Feb 1981-2005 - mean: 14.4 max: 16.7 min: 12.9 °C)

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Temp. °C 12 12 13 16 17 16 14 14 14 14 17 21 22 21 19 17 15 13
Chill °C (?) 11 12 13 15 16 15 13 13 13 13 17 21 22 21 19 17 14 11
Sunrise - 6:52 - - - - - - - 6:54 - - - - - - - 6:56
Sunset - - - - - 20:44 - - - - - - - 20:42 - - - -
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