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Fjaltring wave buoy daily means for May 2020

Daily means from the Fjaltring wave buoy for May 2020, 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 3.5 ft (10th–90th percentile 1.2–6.8 ft), while mean average wave period was 4.5 seconds (10th–90th percentile 3.6–5.4 seconds). All 4,464 checked values passed quality control. Across 10 comparable years, mean wave height was above the same-month mean of 3.1 ft and mean wave period was the same as the same-month mean of 4.5 seconds.

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

Typical Significant Wave Height

3.5ft
Mean: 3.8 ft
P10–P90: 1.2 — 6.8 ft
Recorded extremes

0.5 — 11.3 ft

Mean Observed Wave Period

4.5secs
P10–P90: 3.6 — 5.4secs
Recorded extremes

2.3 — 6.6secs

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 13,315 observations across 10 years.

Wave Height
3.8ft
0.7ft above mean
Historical mean 3.117ft
Wave Period
4.5s
In line with the historical 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 2020Last observation shown
Metric
Mean significant wave height (ft)3246354326664667633212486234211
Mean average wave height (ft)-------------------------------
Mean maximum wave height (ft)4381059753911107101012106631461310468422
Mean average period (s)4445455455655555554443465445443
Mean zero-crossing period (s)4445444455555555554443465444443
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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