Black Point
Australia
Last wave reading:
Last reading
This reading is more than 3 hours old. The buoy may have stopped sending waves for now.
Significant wave height at the buoy
0.6 ft
0.2 m
- Dominant period
- 15 s
- Direction
- from NW 307°
This station does not send a swell and wind-wave split, so the numbers are for the whole sea.
Close to flat at the buoy: 0.6 ft of total wave height.
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
| Day | Height | Peak period | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri, Nov 13 | 2.7 ft | 4 s | S |
| Sat, Nov 14 | 3.0 ft | 4.2 s | S |
| Sun, Nov 15 | 4.3 ft | 5.2 s | SSE |
| Mon, Nov 16 | 3.7 ft | 5.1 s | SSE |
| Tue, Nov 17 | 3.7 ft | 4.7 s | SSE |
| Wed, Nov 18 | 3.0 ft | 4.7 s | SSE |
| Thu, Nov 19 | 1.2 ft | 3.1 s | ESE |
| Fri, Nov 20 | 1.0 ft | 6.5 s | ESE |
ECMWF WAM wave model via Open-Meteo, nearest model cell (34.500°S, 138.000°E). Both lines are significant wave height at sea, the same measure the buoy reports. Model output, not a Quiver beach forecast.
Nearby buoys
- Brighton1.2 ft · 2.3 sLive · 104 km
- Spilsby South2.8 ft · 11 sLive · 171 km
- Victor Harbouroffshore4.1 ft · 10 sLive · 171 km
- North Kangaroo Island2.6 ft · 11 sLive · 192 km
- Cape Du Couedic5.7 ft · 12 sLive · 254 km
How to read this buoy
Biggest hourly reading in that record: 0.9 ft at 21 s on Nov 13.
- Operator
- Department for Environment and Water
- Program
- Australian national wave buoy network (AODN)
- Position
- 34.135°S, 138.104°E
- Type
- Moored buoy
- Local time zone
- Australia/Adelaide
- Swell split
- No, whole-sea numbers only
Source: Data was sourced from Australia’s Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) - IMOS is enabled by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). Licence: CC BY 4.0. Changes: Quiver converts the units (feet, knots, °F) and shows a subset of the published fields. Station page at the source.
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.
