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Fjaltring wave buoy daily means for May 2018

Daily means from the Fjaltring wave buoy for May 2018, including available wave height, period, direction, wind and sea temperature data.

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Period Summary

Programmatically generated summary. Hog Says

1,488 wave-buoy observations covered all 31 days. Typical wave height was 1.6 ft (10th–90th percentile 0.9–3.5 ft), while mean average of more than one wave period type was 4.7 seconds (10th–90th percentile 3.5–6.1 seconds). All 4,463 checked values passed quality control. Across 8 comparable years, mean wave height was below the same-month mean of 3.1 ft and mean wave period was above the same-month mean of 4.5 seconds.

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

Typical Significant Wave Height

1.6ft
Mean: 2 ft
P10–P90: 0.9 — 3.5 ft
Recorded extremes

0.6 — 8.7 ft

Mean Observed Wave Period

4.7secs
P10–P90: 3.5 — 6.1secs
Recorded extremes

2.8 — 8.8secs

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 Mays

Historical baseline from 10,339 observations across 8 years.

Wave Height
2ft
1.1ft below mean
Historical mean 3.15ft
Wave Period
4.7s
0.2s above mean
Historical mean 4.5s
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 2018Last observation shown
Metric
Mean significant wave height (ft)2342222112311115632112221111221
Mean average wave height (ft)-------------------------------
Mean maximum wave height (ft)46643332234212191163223432222332
Mean average period (s)4454475645454445655655555544444
Mean zero-crossing period (s)4444465634444344554655444443444
Mean maximum wave period (s)-------------------------------
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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.

The observation data displayed on this page is from the Danish Coastal Authority wave-measurement network.

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

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