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Fjaltring wave buoy daily means for Jan 2016

Daily means from the Fjaltring wave buoy for Jan 2016, including available wave height, period, direction, wind and sea temperature data.

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Period Summary

Programmatically generated summary. Hog Says

1,487 wave-buoy observations covered all 31 days. Typical wave height was 3.3 ft (10th–90th percentile 1.9–9.5 ft), while mean average of more than one wave period type was 4.8 seconds (10th–90th percentile 3.4–6.3 seconds). All 4,458 checked values passed quality control. Across 6 comparable years, mean wave height was below the same-month mean of 4.7 ft and mean wave period was below the same-month mean of 5.1 seconds.

Generated only from the observations and comparisons shown on this page.

Typical Significant Wave Height

3.3ft
Mean: 4.4 ft
P10–P90: 1.9 — 9.5 ft
Recorded extremes

1.2 — 14.3 ft

Mean Observed Wave Period

4.8secs
P10–P90: 3.4 — 6.3secs
Recorded extremes

2.8 — 7.5secs

Typical Observed Wind

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Mean: - mph
P10–P90: - — - mph

Available for 0 of 744 hourly samples

Mean Water Temperature

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P10–P90: - — -°C

Available for 0 of 744 hourly samples

Compared With Previous Januarys

Historical baseline from 8,240 observations across 6 years.

Wave Height
4.4ft
0.3ft below mean
Historical mean 4.724ft
Wave Period
4.8s
0.3s below mean
Historical mean 5.1s
Water Temperature
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Not enough comparable data

Chart showing grouped wave observations for Fjaltring. Use the table on this page for a text version of the same measurements. To open hourly observations, use a linked day name in the table.

About Fjaltring wave buoy

Fjaltring is a Danish Coastal Authority directional buoy off the exposed central west coast of Jutland. The authority has maintained a continuous wave-measurement programme here since 1980, creating a key reference for Denmark's most erosion-prone coast and the long-running Lodbjerg–Nymindegab protection works.

Its current data source reports wave height, wave period and wave direction.

Metrics are rows; days run left to right.
Fjaltring wave buoy daily means Jan 2016Last observation shown
Metric
Mean significant wave height (ft)5332223335432224245325444799111010
Mean maximum wave height (ft)8564334558754436489548776121517191817
Mean average period (s)5433334555544455555545555566776
Mean zero-crossing period (s)5433333445544445445544554566666
Mean peak wave directionWSWconcentration 99%Sconcentration 32%SEconcentration 96%ESEconcentration 58%SWconcentration 47%NNWconcentration 60%SSWconcentration 72%NWconcentration 61%Wconcentration 91%SWconcentration 99%WSWconcentration 99%NWconcentration 84%NNWconcentration 95%WNWconcentration 94%WNWconcentration 93%NWconcentration 99%NWconcentration 100%Wconcentration 93%Wconcentration 92%NWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 87%SWconcentration 97%WSWconcentration 99%WSWconcentration 97%SWconcentration 99%WSWconcentration 100%WSWconcentration 100%Wconcentration 98%WSWconcentration 98%Wconcentration 99%WNWconcentration 100%

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Wave metric colour key

Colours move through the scale as each number increases. They do not by themselves mean that conditions are good, safe or suitable for you.

Wave & swell height0–40+ ft
Wave & swell period0–22+ s
Wind speed0–75 mph

The displayed numbers remain the source of truth; colour is an additional visual cue.

What does buoy wave power mean?

kW/m means kilowatts of wave power per metre of wave crest. It describes the rate at which the observed sea state carries energy past the buoy.

Unlike the shore-directed forecast value, buoy wave power is the total power at the observation point. It is not projected towards a particular beach and does not predict breaking wave height.

In deep water, wave power can be calculated with:

P is approximately 0.49 times significant wave height squared times wave energy period.

P is power in kW/m, Hs is significant wave height in metres, and Te is wave energy period in seconds.

  • Provider-reported power is used when available.
  • Otherwise, a value is calculated only when both significant height and a genuine energy period are available. The ≈ symbol marks calculated values.
  • A dash is shown instead of substituting peak, Tm02, zero-crossing or other period measurements.
  • Daily and monthly figures use the mean of hourly-normalized observation power values; they are not calculated from mean height and period.

Wave direction, spectrum, water depth and local bathymetry still matter. Wave power is best read alongside height, period and direction rather than as a standalone surf-quality score.

Observation data source

Learn how SurfHog combines, checks and summarizes observations in the data and methodology notes.

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