Big Bay Surf Forecast

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Wind Update Continuing clean conditions at Big Bay (calm at Duynefontein 11 km from Big Bay). 1.7m 9 s period swell from WSW with an additional 0.9m 9 s period swell from SSE
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Big Bay Surf Forecast / Cape Town / South Africa

48hr Weather and Surf, issued 1 pm Wednesday 23 Oct 2019 SAST

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

Today's Big Bay sea temperature is 16.0 °C (Statistics for 23 Oct 1981-2005 - mean: 16.3 max: 17.5 min: 15.3 °C)

48 hr 7 days Cape Town Surf

m, °C	Wednesday 23					Thursday 24								Friday 25
ft, °F	11AM	2PM	5PM	8PM	11PM	2AM	5AM	8AM	11AM	2PM	5PM	8PM	11PM	2AM	5AM	8AM	11AM	2PM
Rating (10 max)
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	S	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	WNW	WNW	SW	SW	SW
Period(s) (?)	9	9	8	8	9	9	9	9	9	10	10	10	11	8	9	13	13	13
Wave Graph (?)
Energy(?)	170	406	419	449	460	552	508	478	499	489	565	664	787	994	1718	2532	2760	2522
Wind (km/h)	NW	WNW	WNW	NW	N	NE	N	NNW	NW	NW	NW	NNW	N	N	NNW	WSW	WSW	WSW
Wind State(?)	cross- on	on	on	on	cross	cross- off	cross	cross- on	cross- on	on	on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on
Tide State(?)	flow	high	ebb	low	flow	high	ebb	low	flow	high	ebb	low	flow	high	ebb	low	flow	high
High Tide / height (m)		11:27AM 1.24				11:57PM 1.24				12:25PM 1.40				12:53AM 1.38				1:12PM 1.55
Low Tide / height (m)				5:47PM 0.38				6:07AM 0.31				6:44PM 0.21				6:58AM 0.18
Note: the tide data above is for Beach Road which is 7 km away. Surf properties and timing are calculated for Big Bay.New forecast is published every 6 hours at www.surf-forecast.com. See detailed tide info and graph Offshore winds at Big Bay blow from the ESE.
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	Wednesday 23					Thursday 24								Friday 25
	11AM	2PM	5PM	8PM	11PM	2AM	5AM	8AM	11AM	2PM	5PM	8PM	11PM	2AM	5AM	8AM	11AM	2PM

Summary	some clouds	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	light rain	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	clear
Rain (mm)	-	2	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	4	1	-
Temp. °C	17	17	17	16	15	14	14	15	18	19	18	17	16	16	16	17	17	17
Chill °C (?)	16	16	16	16	14	13	14	15	18	18	17	16	14	14	14	16	16	16
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:54	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:52	-	-
Sunset	-	-	7:06	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:07	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

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