Tyne/Tees WaveNet Site
United Kingdom
Last wave reading:
Now at the buoy
Significant wave height at the buoy
10.6 ft
3.2 m
- Dominant period
- 11 s
- Direction
- from N 11°
This station does not send a swell and wind-wave split, so the numbers are for the whole sea.
Mid-period swell: 10.6 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.
Model vs the buoy
- Buoy, hourly
- Model, past days
- Model forecast
Over the last 2 days, the model tracked the buoy within 10%.
| Day | Height | Peak period | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri, Nov 13 | 9.5 ft | 10 s | N |
| Sat, Nov 14 | 5.4 ft | 9.3 s | N |
| Sun, Nov 15 | 8.7 ft | 6.7 s | NNW |
| Mon, Nov 16 | 9.6 ft | 7.6 s | NNW |
| Tue, Nov 17 | 7.5 ft | 11 s | N |
| Wed, Nov 18 | 6.8 ft | 12 s | NNE |
| Thu, Nov 19 | 7.8 ft | 13 s | NNE |
ECMWF WAM wave model via Open-Meteo, nearest model cell (55.000°N, 0.750°W). Both lines are significant wave height at sea, the same measure the buoy reports. Model output, not a Quiver beach forecast.
Nearby buoys
- Whitby wave buoy10.1 ft · 11 sLive · 47 km
- Newbiggin wave buoy6.4 ft · 9.1 sLive · 55 km
- Scarborough wave buoy9.4 ft · 11 sLive · 75 km
- Hornsea wave buoy6.9 ft · 10 sLive · 120 km
- Cleeton AWS9.2 ftLive · 139 km
- Ravenspurn North AWS8.5 ftLive · 157 km
Other readings
- Water temperature
- 52°F (11.1°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: 13.8 ft at 10 s on Nov 12.
- Station id
- 6200293
- Operator
- Centre for Environment- Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas)- Lowestoft Laboratory
- Program
- Copernicus Marine In Situ
- Position
- 54.919°N, 0.749°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 Centre for Environment- Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas)- Lowestoft Laboratory. 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.
