Bob
Australia
Last wave reading:
Now at the buoy
Significant wave height at the buoy
6.0 ft
1.8 m
- Dominant period
- 10 s
- Direction
- from SW 234°
This station does not send a swell and wind-wave split, so the numbers are for the whole sea.
Mid-period swell: 6.0 ft at 10 s from the SW. 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 day, the model tracked the buoy within 10%.
| Day | Height | Peak period | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri, Nov 13 | 6.3 ft | 11 s | SW |
| Sat, Nov 14 | 7.6 ft | 13 s | SW |
| Sun, Nov 15 | 11.6 ft | 13 s | SSW |
| Mon, Nov 16 | 11.9 ft | 13 s | SSW |
| Tue, Nov 17 | 8.8 ft | 12 s | SW |
| Wed, Nov 18 | 9.4 ft | 13 s | SSW |
| Thu, Nov 19 | 9.4 ft | 13 s | SSW |
| Fri, Nov 20 | 6.7 ft | 12 s | SSW |
ECMWF WAM wave model via Open-Meteo, nearest model cell (38.750°S, 142.250°E). Both lines are significant wave height at sea, the same measure the buoy reports. Model output, not a Quiver beach forecast.
Nearby buoys
- Port Fairy5.1 ft · 10 sLive · 29 km
- Dutton Way2.1 ft · 4.1 sLive · 67 km
- Cape Bridgewater6.0 ft · 11 sLive · 96 km
- Apollo Bay3.3 ft · 11 sLive · 123 km
- Weeroona Bay1.2 ft · 11 sLive · 212 km
- Indented Head0.4 ft · 20 sStale · 220 km
How to read this buoy
Over the readings shown here, most wave energy reached this buoy from the SW.
Biggest hourly reading in that record: 8.6 ft at 13 s on Nov 11.
- Operator
- IMOS Coastal Wave Buoys Facility
- Program
- Australian national wave buoy network (AODN)
- Position
- 38.642°S, 142.310°E
- Type
- Moored buoy
- Local time zone
- GMT+9 (open ocean)
- 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.
