K5
United Kingdom
Last wave reading:
Now at the buoy
Significant wave height at the buoy
7.2 ft
2.2 m
- Dominant period
- 9.8 s
- Direction
- from NNE 13°
This station does not send a swell and wind-wave split, so the numbers are for the whole sea.
Short-period swell: 7.2 ft at 9.8 s from the NNE. 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%.
| Day | Height | Peak period | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri, Nov 13 | 11.3 ft | 8 s | W |
| Sat, Nov 14 | 13.2 ft | 14 s | N |
| Sun, Nov 15 | 15.7 ft | 14 s | NNW |
| Mon, Nov 16 | 13.8 ft | 13 s | N |
| Tue, Nov 17 | 9.4 ft | 11 s | NNE |
| Wed, Nov 18 | 13.0 ft | 15 s | SW |
| Thu, Nov 19 | 12.9 ft | 15 s | SW |
ECMWF WAM wave model via Open-Meteo, nearest model cell (59.000°N, 11.500°W). Both lines are significant wave height at sea, the same measure the buoy reports. Model output, not a Quiver beach forecast.
Nearby buoys
- West of Hebrides WaveNet Site6.5 ft · 9.5 sLive · 287 km
- K78.5 ft · 9.5 sLive · 424 km
- Blackstones WaveNet Site4.2 ft · 10 sLive · 425 km
- Moray Firth WaveNet Site4.3 ft · 9.5 sLive · 485 km
- K48.5 ft · 11 sLive · 509 km
- South Hunter4.9 ftStale · 580 km
Other readings
- Water temperature
- 51°F (10.6°C)
- Wind
- 22 kt from the W
- Air temperature
- 48°F (8.7°C)
- Pressure
- 1010.4 hPa
Reported Nov 13, 5:00 AM GMT.
How to read this buoy
Over the readings shown here, most wave energy reached this buoy from the N and NE.
Biggest hourly reading in that record: 16.4 ft at 14 s on Nov 12.
- Station id
- 6400045
- Operator
- Met Office- Exeter
- Program
- Copernicus Marine In Situ
- Position
- 59.100°N, 11.401°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 Met Office- Exeter. 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.
