Sandringham
Australia
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
0.3 ft
0.1 m
- Dominant period
- 2.1 s
- Direction
- from SSW 207°
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: 0.3 ft of total wave height.
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 | 1.0 ft | 2.9 s | SSW |
| Sat, Nov 14 | 1.8 ft | 3.3 s | SSW |
| Sun, Nov 15 | 2.8 ft | 3.9 s | SSW |
| Mon, Nov 16 | 2.5 ft | 3.8 s | S |
| Tue, Nov 17 | 1.4 ft | 6.3 s | SSW |
| Wed, Nov 18 | 1.8 ft | 3.6 s | SSW |
| Thu, Nov 19 | 1.2 ft | 14 s | S |
| Fri, Nov 20 | 0.7 ft | 13 s | SSW |
ECMWF WAM wave model via Open-Meteo, nearest model cell (38.000°S, 145.000°E). Both lines are significant wave height at sea, the same measure the buoy reports. Model output, not a Quiver beach forecast.
Nearby buoys
- Central0.4 ft · 2 sStale · 15 km
- Werribee1.0 ft · 2.3 sLive · 19 km
- Mt Eliza0.4 ft · 17 sStale · 21 km
- Indented Head0.7 ft · 2.1 sLive · 28 km
- Rosebud0.3 ft · 20 sStale · 37 km
- Weeroona Bay0.8 ft · 11 sLive · 45 km
How to read this buoy
Biggest hourly reading in that record: 1.8 ft at 3.7 s on Nov 12.
- Operator
- Deakin University
- Program
- Australian national wave buoy network (AODN)
- Position
- 37.979°S, 144.998°E
- Type
- Moored buoy
- Local time zone
- Australia/Melbourne
- Swell split
- No, whole-sea numbers only
Source: Data was sourced from Australia’s Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) - IMOS is enabled by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). This wave data was collected and quality controlled by the University of Western Australia. This dataset is an output from the Catching Oz Waves project, which received investment (https://doi.org/10.47486/DP748) from the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC). The ARDC is funded by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). Licence: CC BY 4.0. Changes: Quiver converts the units (feet, knots, °F) and shows a subset of the published fields. 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.
