Weston Bay wave buoy
United Kingdom
Last wave reading:
Now at the buoy
Significant wave height at the buoy
0.4 ft
0.1 m
- Dominant period
- 3.3 s
- Direction
- from NNE 23°
This station does not send a swell and wind-wave split, so the numbers are for the whole sea.
Close to flat at the buoy: 0.4 ft of total wave height. 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 | 0.3 ft | 1.8 s | NNE |
| Sat, Nov 14 | 1.0 ft | 2.4 s | SSE |
| Sun, Nov 15 | 1.8 ft | 3.2 s | SSW |
| Mon, Nov 16 | 1.9 ft | 3 s | E |
| Tue, Nov 17 | 2.3 ft | 3.4 s | ENE |
| Wed, Nov 18 | 0.7 ft | 2.1 s | NNE |
| Thu, Nov 19 | 1.3 ft | 2.7 s | SW |
ECMWF WAM wave model via Open-Meteo, nearest model cell (51.500°N, 3.000°W). Both lines are significant wave height at sea, the same measure the buoy reports. Model output, not a Quiver beach forecast.
Nearby buoys
- Minehead wave buoy0.8 ft · 3.1 sLive · 34 km
- Scarweather WaveNet Site1.0 ft · 10 sLive · 64 km
- West Bay wave buoy4.8 ft · 11 sStale · 76 km
- Chesil wave buoy1.7 ft · 5.9 sLive · 90 km
- Dawlish wave buoy2.5 ft · 5.9 sLive · 90 km
- Weymouth wave buoy1.7 ft · 5.9 sLive · 92 km
Other readings
- Water temperature
- 52°F (11.0°C)
Reported Nov 13, 6:30 AM GMT.
How to read this buoy
Over the readings shown here, most wave energy reached this buoy from the N and NE.
Biggest hourly reading in that record: 2.4 ft at 4.4 s on Nov 11.
- Station id
- 6201026
- Operator
- South West Coastal Monitoring; National Network of Regional Coastal Monitoring Programmes (NNRCMP)
- Program
- Copernicus Marine In Situ
- Position
- 51.353°N, 3.018°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 South West Coastal Monitoring; 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.
