Scarborough wave buoy
United Kingdom
Last wave reading:
Now at the buoy
Significant wave height at the buoy
10.0 ft
3.0 m
- Dominant period
- 11 s
- Direction
- from N 359°
This station does not send a swell and wind-wave split, so the numbers are for the whole sea.
Mid-period swell: 10.0 ft at 11 s from the N. 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
- Whitby wave buoy9.2 ft · 11 sLive · 30 km
- Hornsea wave buoy6.3 ft · 12 sLive · 45 km
- Cleeton AWS9.2 ftLive · 74 km
- Tyne/Tees WaveNet Site10.2 ft · 11 sLive · 75 km
- Spurn Point Wave buoy4.5 ft · 12 sLive · 87 km
- Ravenspurn North AWS8.5 ftLive · 98 km
Other readings
- Water temperature
- 53°F (11.8°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 N.
Biggest hourly reading in that record: 13.1 ft at 10 s on Nov 12.
- Station id
- 6201045
- Operator
- North East Coastal Observatory; National Network of Regional Coastal Monitoring Programmes (NNRCMP)
- Program
- Copernicus Marine In Situ
- Position
- 54.294°N, 0.319°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 North East Coastal Observatory; 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.
