Skardon River Outer
Australia
Last wave reading:
Now at the buoy
Significant wave height at the buoy
1.2 ft
0.4 m
- Dominant period
- —
- Direction
- no direction
This station does not send a swell and wind-wave split, so the numbers are for the whole sea.
Waves: 1.2 ft. 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 day, the model ran 46% high against the buoy.
| Day | Height | Peak period | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri, Nov 13 | 2.0 ft | 3.3 s | ENE |
| Sat, Nov 14 | 2.2 ft | 3.5 s | E |
| Sun, Nov 15 | 1.4 ft | 2.7 s | E |
| Mon, Nov 16 | 1.4 ft | 3 s | ENE |
| Tue, Nov 17 | 1.4 ft | 3.5 s | N |
| Wed, Nov 18 | 1.8 ft | 4 s | NE |
| Thu, Nov 19 | 1.8 ft | 3.1 s | ESE |
| Fri, Nov 20 | 1.6 ft | 2.9 s | ESE |
ECMWF WAM wave model via Open-Meteo, nearest model cell (11.750°S, 141.750°E). Both lines are significant wave height at sea, the same measure the buoy reports. Model output, not a Quiver beach forecast.
Nearby buoys
- Albatross Bay1.0 ft · 3.1 sLive · 105 km
How to read this buoy
Over the readings shown here, most wave energy reached this buoy from the S and W.
Biggest hourly reading in that record: 2.0 ft at 3.2 s on Nov 12.
- Operator
- Queensland Department of Environment and Science/Metro Mining Limited
- Program
- Australian national wave buoy network (AODN)
- Position
- 11.750°S, 141.830°E
- Type
- Moored buoy
- Local time zone
- Australia/Brisbane
- 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). 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.
