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First light · Today 8am
5–6 ft · sets to 8
GoodBest today 7am–12pm
Nothing is clearly limiting, but the swell is near, not in, its window and the tide is only near its band.
Now 6am, dark · 5-6 ft ›Model ·Today 8am
The wave field solved for this hour on the real seafloor, playing forward. A model, not a camera.
Two breaks half a mile apart. Different waves.
Steamer Lane and Cowell's get the same swell and the same tide. The seafloor decides the rest, and the forecast shows you how.
Show me whyBoth are fed by the same swell bending around Lighthouse Point. The Lane takes it on the exposed reefs off the end; Cowell's sits in the lee, where what is left has wrapped so far round that it arrives long, soft and slow.
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