Reported Nov 13, 6:30 AM GMTBuoy 6201027

Dawlish wave buoy

Name: Dawlish wave buoy buoy 6201027 wave observations
Creator: E.U. Copernicus Marine Service Information; https://doi.org/10.48670/moi-00036. Data from South West Coastal Monitoring; National Network of Regional Coastal Monitoring Programmes (NNRCMP)
License: https://marine.copernicus.eu/user-corner/service-commitments-and-licence

United Kingdom

Last wave reading: Nov 13, 6:30 AM GMT

Now at the buoy

Significant wave height at the buoy

2.5 ft

0.8 m

Dominant period: 5.9 s
Direction: from ESE 122°

This station does not send a swell and wind-wave split, so the numbers are for the whole sea.

Short-period wind chop: 2.5 ft at 5.9 s from the ESE. 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 tracked the buoy within 10%.

Model peak each day at the buoy
Day	Height	Peak period	From
Fri, Nov 13	1.4 ft	6 s	ENE
Sat, Nov 14	2.1 ft	3.9 s	SSE
Sun, Nov 15	3.2 ft	4.8 s	S
Mon, Nov 16	4.7 ft	5 s	ESE
Tue, Nov 17	5.3 ft	5.4 s	ESE
Wed, Nov 18	1.7 ft	4 s	SW
Thu, Nov 19	1.9 ft	3.9 s	SW

ECMWF WAM wave model via Open-Meteo, nearest model cell (50.500°N, 3.500°W). Both lines are significant wave height at sea, the same measure the buoy reports. Model output, not a Quiver beach forecast.

Nearby buoys

Tor Bay wave buoy3.3 ft · 6.3 sLive · 18 km
Start Bay wave buoy3.3 ft · 6.3 sLive · 35 km
West Bay wave buoy4.8 ft · 11 sStale · 49 km
Chesil wave buoy1.7 ft · 5.9 sLive · 63 km
Weymouth wave buoy1.7 ft · 5.9 sLive · 71 km
Minehead wave buoy0.8 ft · 3.1 sLive · 72 km

How to read this buoy

Over the readings shown here, most wave energy reached this buoy from the SE and S.

Biggest hourly reading in that record: 2.8 ft at 4.4 s on Nov 12.

Station id: 6201027
Operator: South West Coastal Monitoring; National Network of Regional Coastal Monitoring Programmes (NNRCMP)
Program: Copernicus Marine In Situ
Position: 50.580°N, 3.417°W
Type: Moored buoy
Local time zone: Europe/London
Swell split: No, whole-sea numbers only

Source: E.U. Copernicus Marine Service Information; https://doi.org/10.48670/moi-00036. Data from South West Coastal Monitoring; National Network of Regional Coastal Monitoring Programmes (NNRCMP). 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.