Minehead wave buoy
United Kingdom
Last wave reading:
Now at the buoy
Significant wave height at the buoy
0.8 ft
0.3 m
- Dominant period
- 3.1 s
- Direction
- from E 98°
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: 0.8 ft of total wave height. 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.
Nearby buoys
- Weston Bay wave buoy0.4 ft · 2.5 sLive · 34 km
- Scarweather WaveNet Site1.0 ftLive · 40 km
- Bideford Bay wave buoy0.8 ft · 5.6 sLive · 59 km
- Dawlish wave buoy2.5 ft · 5.9 sLive · 72 km
- West Bay wave buoy4.8 ft · 11 sStale · 78 km
- Tor Bay wave buoy3.0 ft · 6.3 sLive · 88 km
Other readings
- Water temperature
- 54°F (12.1°C)
Reported Nov 13, 6:00 AM GMT.
How to read this buoy
Over the readings shown here, most wave energy reached this buoy from the NE and E.
Biggest hourly reading in that record: 3.9 ft at 5.4 s on Nov 11.
- Station id
- 6201004
- Operator
- South West Coastal Monitoring; National Network of Regional Coastal Monitoring Programmes (NNRCMP)
- Program
- Copernicus Marine In Situ
- Position
- 51.227°N, 3.469°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 South West Coastal Monitoring; National Network of Regional Coastal Monitoring Programmes (NNRCMP). 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.
