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Vetchs Reef ratings
Quality on a good day: 4.0
Consistency of surf: 1.0
Difficulty level: 4.0
Crowds: 3.0

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Vetchs Reef Surf Forecast / South-Africa – Durban / South Africa

48hr Weather and Surf Issued (local time): 19 pm Wednesday 15 Feb 2012

Vetchs Reef 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
E 		-
- 		-
- 		-
- 		-
- 		1.0
E 		1.1
E 		1.1
E 		1.1
E 		1.1
E 		1.1
E 		1.1
E 		1.1
E 		1.1
E 		1.0
E 		1.2
ENE 		1.2
ENE 		1.1
ENE
Period (s) (?) 8 - - - - 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 8 8 9 10 10 10
Surfscale
Wave
Graph
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Max-energy 30 0 0 0 0 165 203 203 207 199 190 181 177 177 153 294 276 230
Wind
(km/h) 		20 S 10 SSW 10 SSW 10 SW 5 SSW 5 SSE 10 SE 15 ESE 10 E 5 ENE 5 NNE 5 S 5 SSW 10 SSW 10 SSE 15 S 20 SSW 20 SSW
Wind State (?) cross cross-
off		 cross-
off		 cross-
off		 cross-
off		 cross cross-
on		 on on on cross glass cross-
off		 cross-
off		 cross cross cross-
off		 cross-
off
Key to wind character - offshore winds at Vetchs Reef blow from the W
onshore cross-onshore cross-shore cross-offshore offshore glassy
Tide State (?) low flow high ebb low flow high ebb ebb low flow high ebb low flow high ebb low
High Tide
/ height (m)

9:34PM
1.36


10:51AM
1.40



12:10AM
1.35


12:56PM
1.48

Low Tide
/ height (m) 		3:19PM
0.85


4:00AM
0.88



5:42PM
0.88


6:29AM
0.86


7:24PM
0.74
 

Note: the tide data above is for Durban, South Africa which is 1 km away. Surf properties and timing are calculated for Vetchs Reef. New forecast is published every 6 hours at www.surf-forecast.com. See detailed tide info and graph.
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Today's Vetchs Reef sea temperature is 25.8 °C (Statistics for 15 Feb 1981-2005 - mean: 26.0 max: 27.2 min: 24.9 °C)
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Summary some clouds some clouds clear clear clear clear clear clear clear clear clear clear clear clear some clouds some clouds rain shwrs some clouds
Rain (mm) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 -
Temp. °C 24 23 23 22 22 23 25 26 25 24 23 23 23 24 25 26 25 24
Chill °C (?) 24 23 23 22 22 23 25 26 25 24 23 23 23 24 25 26 25 24
Sunrise - - - - - 5:35 - - - - - - - 5:37 - - - -
Sunset 18:43 - - - - - - - 18:42 - - - - - - - 18:40 -
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