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Fjaltring wave buoy daily means for May 2016

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

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Period Summary

Programmatically generated summary. Hog Says

1,448 wave-buoy observations covered all 31 days. Typical wave height was 2.5 ft (10th–90th percentile 1–5.4 ft), while mean average wave period was 4.4 seconds (10th–90th percentile 3.4–5.4 seconds). All 4,344 checked values passed quality control. Across 6 comparable years, mean wave height was below the same-month mean of 3.3 ft and mean wave period was below the same-month mean of 4.6 seconds.

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

Typical Significant Wave Height

2.5ft
Mean: 2.8 ft
P10–P90: 1 — 5.4 ft
Recorded extremes

0.7 — 7.1 ft

Mean Observed Wave Period

4.4secs
P10–P90: 3.4 — 5.4secs
Recorded extremes

2.6 — 6.8secs

Typical Observed Wind

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Mean: - mph
P10–P90: - — - mph

Available for 0 of 725 hourly samples

Mean Water Temperature

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P10–P90: - — -°C

Available for 0 of 725 hourly samples

Compared With Previous Mays

Historical baseline from 7,439 observations across 6 years.

Wave Height
2.8ft
0.5ft below mean
Historical mean 3.346ft
Wave Period
4.4s
0.2s below mean
Historical mean 4.6s
Water Temperature
–
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 May 2016Last observation shown
Metric
Mean significant wave height (ft)3443211111215656632332354211233
Mean maximum wave height (ft)477532222242899111053554586322354
Mean average period (s)5455443344445655545444465443444
Mean zero-crossing period (s)4445443333434555545444455443344
Mean peak wave directionWNWconcentration 95%WSWconcentration 99%WSWconcentration 94%WNWconcentration 97%Wconcentration 78%WNWconcentration 90%NWconcentration 82%WNWconcentration 82%NWconcentration 96%NWconcentration 96%NNWconcentration 93%NNWconcentration 97%NWconcentration 96%NWconcentration 100%NWconcentration 100%NWconcentration 100%NWconcentration 99%Wconcentration 85%NWconcentration 97%SWconcentration 99%SWconcentration 99%SWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 89%NWconcentration 100%NWconcentration 98%NWconcentration 97%NWconcentration 95%NNWconcentration 90%Nconcentration 98%Nconcentration 100%Nconcentration 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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