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Machico avaliaçãos
Qualidade em um dia bom: 2.8
Consistência do surf: 1.6
Nível de dificuldade: 1.2
Windsurf e kite surf: 4.2
Multidões: 2.8

Overall: 3.3

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Surf Report Feed

Machico Swell Statistics, Janeiro: Surf with Light or Offshore Winds

This image shows only the swells directed at Machico that coincided with light winds or offshore conditions over a normal January. It is based on 2868 predictions, one every 3 hours. The direction of the spokes show where quality surf generating swell comes from. Five colours illustrate increasing wave sizes. Blue shows the smallest swells, less that 0.5m (1.5 feet) high. Green and yellow show increasing swell sizes and red represents highest swells greater than >3m (>10ft). In each graph, the area of any colour is proportional to how frequently that size swell occurs.

The diagram suggests that the dominant swell direction, shown by the largest spokes, was N, whereas the the dominant wind blows from the NE. The chart at the bottom shows the same thing but without direction information. For example, swells larger than 1.5 feet (0.5m) coincided with good wind conditions 0% of the time, equivalent to 0 days. Open sea swells exceeding >3m (>10ft) are unlikely to happen in a normal January. Taking into account the proportion of these swells that coincided with expected offshore winds, and given the fact that Machico is slightly protected from open water swells, we think that that clean surf can be found at Machico about 0% of the time and that surf is blown out by onshore wind 2.0% of the time. This is means that we expect 1 days with waves in a typical January, of which 0 days should be surfable.


FEATURE UPDATE: we now show red swell icons for 'open sea' swells that are travelling in an unfavourable direction for the surf break. In places, these swells may still wrap around coastlines and produce smaller waves at some breaks. They are also significant for windsurfers and other water users that tend to venture further off-shore.