K7
United Kingdom
Last wave reading:
Now at the buoy
Significant wave height at the buoy
8.5 ft
2.6 m
- Dominant period
- 9.5 s
- Direction
- from N 7°
This station does not send a swell and wind-wave split, so the numbers are for the whole sea.
Short-period swell: 8.5 ft at 9.5 s from the N. Fading over the last 6 hours, down 2.8 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 2 days, the model tracked the buoy within 10%.
| Day | Height | Peak period | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri, Nov 13 | 11.2 ft | 8.5 s | W |
| Sat, Nov 14 | 13.7 ft | 9.2 s | WSW |
| Sun, Nov 15 | 14.9 ft | 12 s | NNW |
| Mon, Nov 16 | 19.9 ft | 12 s | NNW |
| Tue, Nov 17 | 12.4 ft | 10 s | N |
| Wed, Nov 18 | 14.2 ft | 14 s | N |
| Thu, Nov 19 | 14.2 ft | 14 s | N |
ECMWF WAM wave model via Open-Meteo, nearest model cell (60.750°N, 4.500°W). Both lines are significant wave height at sea, the same measure the buoy reports. Model output, not a Quiver beach forecast.
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- Beryl A AWS12.8 ftLive · 358 km
- Snorre-A12.8 ft · 18 sLive · 367 km
- Gullfaks-C11.1 ft · 9.1 sLive · 370 km
Other readings
- Water temperature
- 51°F (10.6°C)
- Wind
- 12 kt from the W, gusts 16 kt
- Air temperature
- 41°F (5.1°C)
- Pressure
- 1008.1 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.
Biggest hourly reading in that record: 24.6 ft at 11 s on Nov 12.
- Station id
- 6400046
- Operator
- Met Office- Exeter
- Program
- Copernicus Marine In Situ
- Position
- 60.701°N, 4.500°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.
