Liverpool Bay WaveNet Site
United Kingdom
Last wave reading:
Now at the buoy
Significant wave height at the buoy
2.8 ft
0.8 m
- Dominant period
- 4.4 s
- Direction
- from NW 319°
This station does not send a swell and wind-wave split, so the numbers are for the whole sea.
Short-period wind chop: 2.8 ft at 4.4 s from the NW. 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 ran 13% low against the buoy.
| Day | Height | Peak period | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri, Nov 13 | 2.3 ft | 4.1 s | NNW |
| Sat, Nov 14 | 2.4 ft | 3.6 s | SSW |
| Sun, Nov 15 | 7.7 ft | 6.7 s | NW |
| Mon, Nov 16 | 6.5 ft | 6.8 s | NW |
| Tue, Nov 17 | 2.4 ft | 3.7 s | E |
| Wed, Nov 18 | 2.4 ft | 3.5 s | SE |
| Thu, Nov 19 | 3.0 ft | 3.9 s | ESE |
ECMWF WAM wave model via Open-Meteo, nearest model cell (53.500°N, 3.250°W). Both lines are significant wave height at sea, the same measure the buoy reports. Model output, not a Quiver beach forecast.
Nearby buoys
- Cleveleys wave buoy1.1 ft · 3.6 sLive · 42 km
- Morecambe Bay wave buoy0.5 ft · 4.6 sLive · 54 km
- M2 Irish Sea2.3 ft · 3.8 sLive · 137 km
- Whitby wave buoy10.1 ft · 11 sLive · 209 km
- Scarborough wave buoy9.4 ft · 11 sLive · 216 km
- South Hunter4.9 ftStale · 216 km
Other readings
- Water temperature
- 50°F (10.2°C)
Reported Nov 13, 7:30 AM GMT.
How to read this buoy
Over the readings shown here, most wave energy reached this buoy from the NW.
Biggest hourly reading in that record: 3.6 ft at 5 s on Nov 12.
- Station id
- 6200287
- Operator
- Centre for Environment- Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas)- Lowestoft Laboratory
- Program
- Copernicus Marine In Situ
- Position
- 53.533°N, 3.353°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 Centre for Environment- Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas)- Lowestoft Laboratory. 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.
