Entrance to English Bay
Canada
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
0.7 ft
0.2 m
- Dominant period
- 3 s
- Direction
- no direction
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: 0.7 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
Over the last day, the model ran 27% high against the buoy.
| Day | Height | Peak period | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri, Nov 13 | 1.6 ft | 3 s | E |
| Sat, Nov 14 | 3.0 ft | 4.3 s | ESE |
| Sun, Nov 15 | 3.3 ft | 4.4 s | SE |
| Mon, Nov 16 | 1.2 ft | 2.5 s | ESE |
| Tue, Nov 17 | 1.4 ft | 2.7 s | SE |
| Wed, Nov 18 | 2.3 ft | 4.5 s | SE |
| Thu, Nov 19 | 0.7 ft | 2.9 s | WNW |
ECMWF WAM wave model via Open-Meteo, nearest model cell (49.250°N, 123.250°W). Both lines are significant wave height at sea, the same measure the buoy reports. Model output, not a Quiver beach forecast.
Nearby buoys
- Halibut Bank0.7 ft · 3 sStale · 27 km
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- Angeles Point, WA1.0 ft · 9 sLive · 127 km
- Neah Bay - 6 NM North of Cape Flattery, WA (Traffic Separation Lighted Buoy)11.8 ft · 13 sLive · 134 km
- Sentry Shoal0.0 ft · 2 sStale · 135 km
- La Perouse Bank10.5 ft · 9 sStale · 199 km
Nearest tide station: Point Roberts, Puget Sound 41 km for today’s highs and lows.
Other readings
- Water temperature
- 50°F (10.1°C)
- Wind
- 16 kt from the N, gusts 17 kt
- Air temperature
- 54°F (12.0°C)
- Pressure
- 998.5 hPa
Reported Nov 12, 8:00 PM PDT.
How to read this buoy
Biggest hourly reading in that record: 2.0 ft at 3 s on Nov 11.
- Station id
- 46304
- Operator
- Environment and Climate Change Canada
- Program
- International Partners
- Position
- 49.300°N, 123.360°W
- Type
- Moored buoy
- Local time zone
- America/Vancouver
- Swell split
- No, whole-sea numbers only
Source: NOAA National Data Buoy Center (NDBC); station operated by Environment and Climate Change Canada. Licence: Public domain (US government work). 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.
