South Hunter
United Kingdom
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
4.9 ft
1.5 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: 4.9 ft.
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 | 3.0 ft | 4.2 s | NNW |
| Sat, Nov 14 | 4.5 ft | 5.1 s | SSE |
| Sun, Nov 15 | 8.9 ft | 6.5 s | NNW |
| Mon, Nov 16 | 4.7 ft | 5.8 s | NW |
| Tue, Nov 17 | 3.9 ft | 4.5 s | ESE |
| Wed, Nov 18 | 4.1 ft | 4.7 s | ESE |
| Thu, Nov 19 | 5.4 ft | 5.3 s | E |
ECMWF WAM wave model via Open-Meteo, nearest model cell (55.000°N, 5.750°W). Both lines are significant wave height at sea, the same measure the buoy reports. Model output, not a Quiver beach forecast.
Nearby buoys
- Blackstones WaveNet Site4.2 ft · 10 sLive · 155 km
- M2 Irish Sea2.7 ft · 3.6 sLive · 157 km
- Cleveleys wave buoy0.9 ft · 4.4 sLive · 199 km
- Morecambe Bay wave buoy0.6 ft · 4 sLive · 200 km
- Liverpool Bay WaveNet Site2.1 ft · 4 sLive · 216 km
- Firth of Forth WaveNet Site4.5 ft · 10 sLive · 251 km
Other readings
- Water temperature
- 56°F (13.1°C)
- Wind
- 20 kt from the N, gusts 35 kt
Reported Nov 12, 10:00 AM GMT.
How to read this buoy
Biggest hourly reading in that record: 5.6 ft on Nov 12.
- Operator
- Met Eireann; Commissioners of Irish Lights
- Program
- Copernicus Marine In Situ
- Position
- 54.879°N, 5.755°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 Met Eireann; Commissioners of Irish Lights. 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.
