Overloop Van Valkenisse
Netherlands
Last wave reading:
Now at the buoy
Significant wave height at the buoy
0.2 ft
0.1 m
- Dominant period
- 3.2 s
- Direction
- no direction
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: 0.2 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
- Bath0.5 ft · 2.2 sLive · 6.0 km
- Hansweert0.3 ft · 3.3 sLive · 13 km
- Pas Van Terneuzen Boei0.4 ft · 3.1 sLive · 27 km
- Keeten Boei0.6 ft · 3 sLive · 29 km
- Honte Sloehaven0.8 ft · 6.3 sLive · 32 km
- Roompotsluis0.1 ftLive · 42 km
How to read this buoy
Biggest hourly reading in that record: 0.5 ft at 2.7 s on Nov 11.
- Operator
- Rijkswaterstaat Water- Traffic and Environment
- Program
- Copernicus Marine In Situ
- Position
- 51.372°N, 4.137°E
- Type
- Moored buoy
- Local time zone
- Europe/Brussels
- Swell split
- No, whole-sea numbers only
Source: E.U. Copernicus Marine Service Information; https://doi.org/10.48670/moi-00036. Data from Rijkswaterstaat Water- Traffic and Environment. 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.
