La Perouse Bank
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
10.5 ft
3.2 m
- Dominant period
- 9 s
- Direction
- no direction
This station does not send a swell and wind-wave split, so the numbers are for the whole sea.
Short-period swell: 10.5 ft at 9 s.
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 tracked the buoy within 10%.
| Day | Height | Peak period | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri, Nov 13 | 22.2 ft | 18 s | SW |
| Sat, Nov 14 | 20.7 ft | 18 s | SW |
| Sun, Nov 15 | 22.3 ft | 15 s | WSW |
| Mon, Nov 16 | 20.5 ft | 15 s | W |
| Tue, Nov 17 | 17.7 ft | 9.4 s | S |
| Wed, Nov 18 | 15.7 ft | 9.9 s | SSW |
| Thu, Nov 19 | 11.3 ft | 12 s | W |
ECMWF WAM wave model via Open-Meteo, nearest model cell (48.750°N, 126.000°W). Both lines are significant wave height at sea, the same measure the buoy reports. Model output, not a Quiver beach forecast.
Beaches whose Quiver forecast uses this buoy
- Cox Bay30 km
Quiver forecast now: 9-10ft
Beach numbers are each beach's own Quiver forecast, not a conversion of this buoy reading.
Nearby buoys
- Neah Bay - 6 NM North of Cape Flattery, WA (Traffic Separation Lighted Buoy)12.5 ftLive · 101 km
- Sentry Shoal0.0 ft · 2 sStale · 140 km
- South Brooks13.8 ft · 8 sStale · 172 km
- Halibut Bank0.7 ft · 3 sStale · 174 km
- Cape Elizabeth - 45NM NW of Aberdeen, WA15.1 ftLive · 190 km
- Angeles Point, WA1.0 ft · 10 sLive · 192 km
Other readings
- Water temperature
- 53°F (11.8°C)
- Wind
- 25 kt from the SE, gusts 33 kt
- Air temperature
- 56°F (13.2°C)
- Pressure
- 993.0 hPa
Reported Nov 12, 6:00 PM GMT-8.
How to read this buoy
La Perouse Bank sits 30 km from the closest beach listed here: near enough to show what is arriving, far enough that islands, points and the seabed still change it before it breaks.
Biggest hourly reading in that record: 18.4 ft at 10 s on Nov 11.
- Station id
- 46206
- Operator
- Environment and Climate Change Canada
- Program
- International Partners
- Position
- 48.840°N, 126.000°W
- Type
- Moored buoy
- Local time zone
- GMT-8 (open ocean)
- 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.
