Caloundra
Australia
Last wave reading:
Now at the buoy
Significant wave height at the buoy
2.9 ft
0.9 m
- Dominant period
- 4.2 s
- Direction
- from NE 40°
This station does not send a swell and wind-wave split, so the numbers are for the whole sea.
Short-period wind chop: 2.9 ft at 4.2 s from the NE. Building over the last 6 hours, up 0.9 ft.
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 ran 21% high against the buoy.
| Day | Height | Peak period | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri, Nov 13 | 3.6 ft | 4.6 s | NE |
| Sat, Nov 14 | 3.8 ft | 5.2 s | NE |
| Sun, Nov 15 | 3.9 ft | 5.6 s | NE |
| Mon, Nov 16 | 3.2 ft | 6.7 s | NE |
| Tue, Nov 17 | 4.8 ft | 5.2 s | SE |
| Wed, Nov 18 | 4.9 ft | 6.9 s | ESE |
| Thu, Nov 19 | 4.9 ft | 7 s | ESE |
| Fri, Nov 20 | 4.4 ft | 7 s | ESE |
ECMWF WAM wave model via Open-Meteo, nearest model cell (26.750°S, 153.250°E). Both lines are significant wave height at sea, the same measure the buoy reports. Model output, not a Quiver beach forecast.
Nearby buoys
- North Moreton Bay3.1 ft · 4.2 sLive · 14 km
- Mooloolaba3.0 ft · 4.2 sLive · 31 km
- Wide Bay2.6 ft · 3.5 sLive · 120 km
- Gold Coast2.5 ftLive · 128 km
- Palm Beach2.9 ftLive · 143 km
- Tweed Heads2.8 ftLive · 154 km
How to read this buoy
Over the readings shown here, most wave energy reached this buoy from the NE.
Biggest hourly reading in that record: 3.5 ft at 5.9 s on Nov 11.
- Operator
- Queensland Department of Environment and Science/Port of Brisbane Corporation
- Program
- Australian national wave buoy network (AODN)
- Position
- 26.850°S, 153.150°E
- Type
- Moored buoy
- Local time zone
- Australia/Brisbane
- 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.
