Basse Pointe
Martinique
Last wave reading:
Now at the buoy
Significant wave height at the buoy
4.3 ft
1.3 m
- Dominant period
- —
- Direction
- no direction
This station does not send a swell and wind-wave split, so the numbers are for the whole sea.
Waves: 4.3 ft. Holding steady over the last 6 hours.
Significant wave height is the average of the biggest third of waves at the buoy. It is not surf height at a beach.
Trend at the buoy
Height at the buoy
- Total (significant height)
Period
- Dominant period
Hourly means of the buoy's readings. Arrows point the way the waves travel.
Model vs the buoy
- Buoy, hourly
- Model, past days
- Model forecast
Over the last 2 days, the model ran 22% high against the buoy.
| Day | Height | Peak period | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri, Nov 13 | 6.3 ft | 7.2 s | E |
| Sat, Nov 14 | 6.3 ft | 7.2 s | E |
| Sun, Nov 15 | 5.3 ft | 7.9 s | E |
| Mon, Nov 16 | 4.5 ft | 7.3 s | E |
| Tue, Nov 17 | 5.0 ft | 8.1 s | E |
| Wed, Nov 18 | 5.1 ft | 8.2 s | E |
| Thu, Nov 19 | 4.7 ft | 8.3 s | E |
ECMWF WAM wave model via Open-Meteo, nearest model cell (15.000°N, 61.000°W). Both lines are significant wave height at sea, the same measure the buoy reports. Model output, not a Quiver beach forecast.
Nearby buoys
- Fort de France0.7 ftLive · 38 km
- Sainte Lucie4.6 ftLive · 82 km
- La grande vigie3.9 ftStale · 184 km
- Caribbean Valley - 63 NM WSW of Montserrat3.9 ft · 6 sLive · 282 km
Nearest tide station: Roseau, Dominica 55 km for today’s highs and lows.
How to read this buoy
Biggest hourly reading in that record: 4.4 ft on Nov 13.
- Station id
- 4100098
- Operator
- Cerema; Collectivite Territoriale de Martinique
- Program
- Copernicus Marine In Situ
- Position
- 14.890°N, 61.114°W
- Type
- Moored buoy
- Local time zone
- America/Martinique
- Swell split
- No, whole-sea numbers only
Source: E.U. Copernicus Marine Service Information; https://doi.org/10.48670/moi-00036. Data from Cerema; Collectivite Territoriale de Martinique. Licence: Copernicus Marine Service licence. Changes: Quiver converts the units (feet, knots, °F) and shows a subset of the published fields.
Not for navigation. Readings can be late, missing or wrong; check official marine forecasts before going to sea.
Buoy terms
- Significant height
- The average of the biggest third of waves the buoy measured. Sets in the surf zone can be bigger or smaller.
- Dominant period
- Seconds between the waves carrying the most energy. Longer period means more power and more bend around points.
- Swell vs wind waves
- Swell was made by distant wind; wind waves were made nearby. The buoy splits its spectrum at a cutoff period to report each.
- Direction
- Where waves come from, in degrees true. 270° is from the west.
