South Brooks
Canada
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
13.8 ft
4.2 m
- Dominant period
- 8 s
- Direction
- no direction
This station does not send a swell and wind-wave split, so the numbers are for the whole sea.
Short-period swell: 13.8 ft at 8 s.
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 | 23.4 ft | 17 s | SSW |
| Sat, Nov 14 | 21.1 ft | 16 s | WSW |
| Sun, Nov 15 | 22.9 ft | 14 s | SW |
| Mon, Nov 16 | 22.9 ft | 15 s | W |
| Tue, Nov 17 | 18.1 ft | 9.9 s | SSW |
| Wed, Nov 18 | 14.9 ft | 11 s | SW |
| Thu, Nov 19 | 10.4 ft | 12 s | W |
ECMWF WAM wave model via Open-Meteo, nearest model cell (49.750°N, 128.000°W). Both lines are significant wave height at sea, the same measure the buoy reports. Model output, not a Quiver beach forecast.
Nearby buoys
- La Perouse Bank10.5 ft · 9 sStale · 172 km
- East Dellwood11.5 ft · 9 sStale · 188 km
- West Sea Otter9.5 ft · 9 sStale · 188 km
- Sentry Shoal0.0 ft · 2 sStale · 209 km
- Neah Bay - 6 NM North of Cape Flattery, WA (Traffic Separation Lighted Buoy)12.1 ft · 12 sLive · 271 km
Other readings
- Water temperature
- 54°F (12.0°C)
- Wind
- 33 kt from the SE, gusts 41 kt
- Air temperature
- 55°F (12.9°C)
- Pressure
- 984.5 hPa
Reported Nov 12, 7:00 PM GMT-9.
How to read this buoy
Biggest hourly reading in that record: 19.0 ft at 11 s on Nov 11.
- Station id
- 46132
- Operator
- Environment and Climate Change Canada
- Program
- International Partners
- Position
- 49.780°N, 127.890°W
- Type
- Moored buoy
- Local time zone
- GMT-9 (open ocean)
- Swell split
- No, whole-sea numbers only
Source: NOAA National Data Buoy Center (NDBC); station operated by Environment and Climate Change Canada. Licence: Public domain (US government work). 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.
