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With the latest advisory suggesting a below average season we break down exactly what this means for surfers.
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FORECASTS are showing a sizable swell event about the unfold in the Indian Ocean. Indo swell of the year?
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PIONEERING shaper Maurice Cole on health, life and how the board-shaping industry is about to get all-shook-up.
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A RARE 20 second swell will make land from Iceland to Dakar this weekend
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Apart from special waves such as tsunamis, the only thing that produces the waves we see on our coasts is the action of the wind blowing over the sea surface. Waves arriving on a coast can be generated by local wind, in ‘real time’, in which case the waves are called windsea, or they can be the result ...
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Once a swell starts getting near a coastline, its behaviour begins to change as it starts to propagate over shallower water. Out in the open ocean, the water was deep enough compared with the height of the waves for the presence of the sea bed not to have any effect; but once the water becomes shallow enough, the ...
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When a swell is first generated in the storm centre, a whole host of different wave heights, periods and directions are produced at the same time, by the wind which is constantly imparting its energy onto the sea surface. As long as the wind continues to blow over that stretch of the ocean, the waves will continue to ...
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Imagine the following situation: You look at the predictions, and you find that 6-foot, 15-second swell is forecast to be arriving from the northwest sometime tomorrow. From experience, you know that is the perfect size, period and direction for your beach. The next day, you ‘track’ the swell by checking some wavebuoys just off the coast (wavebuoys ...
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The waves we ride have a few interesting and unique properties. Below, I’m going to explain just a few of them. But first, let me briefly clarify some of the simple terminology associated with a wave: If you keep seeing words like amplitude, height, period, wavelength, frequency and phase, and don’t know what some of them mean, ...
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Forecasting the weather is always difficult and with any method it's worth bearing in mind the enormous complexity of predicting globally what will happen for the week ahead. We want to make sure we're as clear as possible with everyone using magicseaweed about what you can expect from our forecasts.
The bulk of our forecasts start life as the output ...
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