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Tropical Cyclone Gael has emerged from behind Madagascar, and she seeps explosively into the open ocean some 725 naut miles east of KwaZulu-Natal. This is when she becomes significant for surfers. She unleashes an emphatic burst of energy as she slingshots into the open sea today, Monday, as well as Tuesday. The focused fetch around her southern quadrant is spraying a thick swell towards the coast. The initial pulse propagates from this area, taking 36-48 hours to make landfall along specifically the North Coast and southern Mozambique (with some overflow down into the Kei and E Cape). Calculating that the swell begins to pulse from the storm around midday Sunday, the swell really starts to push on Tuesday and Wednesday, with Wednesday straddling Thursday looking like the peak, with solid surf on Friday, dropping steadily Saturday, and Sunday way smaller.
On Sunday, she lay 225 miles SSW of La Reunion just off the southern tip of Madagascar. Gael was moving southwards at 13 knots, packing maximum sustained winds of 95 kts, with gusts to 115, which is three times galeforce or a bit more.
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