Moray Firth WaveNet Site
United Kingdom
Last wave reading:
Now at the buoy
Significant wave height at the buoy
4.4 ft
1.3 m
- Dominant period
- 8.7 s
- Direction
- from NE 49°
This station does not send a swell and wind-wave split, so the numbers are for the whole sea.
Short-period swell: 4.4 ft at 8.7 s from the NE. 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 | 4.9 ft | 4.6 s | WSW |
| Sat, Nov 14 | 5.0 ft | 5 s | SW |
| Sun, Nov 15 | 5.5 ft | 6.2 s | NNE |
| Mon, Nov 16 | 5.4 ft | 4.9 s | W |
| Tue, Nov 17 | 3.8 ft | 10 s | NNE |
| Wed, Nov 18 | 4.7 ft | 13 s | NE |
| Thu, Nov 19 | 4.9 ft | 13 s | NE |
ECMWF WAM wave model via Open-Meteo, nearest model cell (58.000°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
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- Brae A10.2 ftLive · 282 km
- West of Hebrides WaveNet Site6.5 ft · 10 sLive · 283 km
Other readings
- Water temperature
- 53°F (11.4°C)
Reported Nov 13, 8:30 AM GMT.
How to read this buoy
Over the readings shown here, most wave energy reached this buoy from the NE.
Biggest hourly reading in that record: 7.1 ft at 7.7 s on Nov 12.
- Station id
- 6200046
- Operator
- Centre for Environment- Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas)- Lowestoft Laboratory; Scottish Environment Protection Agency
- Program
- Copernicus Marine In Situ
- Position
- 57.967°N, 3.333°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; Scottish Environment Protection Agency. 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.
