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  2. Surfline - Wikipedia

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    Surfline was founded in 1985 as a pay-per-call telephone surf report based on weather, the National Weather Service's buoy data, [9] and telephone reports from young surfers that travelled to beach sites to observe the waves in-person.

  3. Surf forecasting - Wikipedia

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    Surf forecasting is the process of using offshore swell data to predict onshore wave conditions. It is used by millions of people across the world, including professionals who put their forecasts online, meteorologists who work for news crews, and surfers all over the world.

  4. Hawaiian scale - Wikipedia

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    Miyake reports [3] that the Surf News Network [4] expresses wave heights as "2/3 the height of the wave from crest to trough." This heuristic finds mathematical support as a compromise between two methods of expressing the combined effects of a wave's average upward and average downward deviations from mean sea level, namely a) the sum of the absolute value of a sine wave's average (mean ...

  5. Palm Springs Surf Club - Wikipedia

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    Palm Springs Surf Club is a surf club located in Palm Springs, California. The park operated under Cedar Fair's ownership as Knott's Soak City until 2013 when CNL Lifestyle Properties acquired it and changed the name to Wet'n'Wild Palm Springs. In 2019, the park was acquired by Pono Acquisition Partners I, LLC. [2] The park opened in 2024. [3]

  6. Quicksand - Wikipedia

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    A group of hikers encountering quicksand on the banks of the Paria River, Utah Quicksand warning sign near Lower King Bridge, Western Australia. Quicksand is a shear thinning non-Newtonian fluid: when undisturbed, it often appears to be solid ("gel" form), but a less than 1% change in the stress on the quicksand will cause a sudden decrease in its viscosity ("sol" form).

  7. Surf culture - Wikipedia

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    The expression "surf nazi" arose in the 1960s to describe territorial, aggressive, and obsessive surfers, often involved in surf gangs or surf clubs. The term "surf nazi" was originally used simply to denote the strict territorialism, violence, hostility to outsiders, and absolute obsession with surfing that was characteristic in the so-called ...

  8. Heavy Weather (album) - Wikipedia

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    Heavy Weather is the seventh album by Weather Report, released in 1977 through Columbia Records.By 1991, the release had sold 1,000,000 copies in America alone; it would prove to be the band's most commercially successful album and one of the best sellers in the Columbia jazz catalog.

  9. Wetland - Wikipedia

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    A simplified definition of wetland is "an area of land that is usually saturated with water". [14] More precisely, wetlands are areas where "water covers the soil, or is present either at or near the surface of the soil all year or for varying periods of time during the year, including during the growing season". [15]