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Fjaltring wave buoy daily means for Mar 2023

Daily means from the Fjaltring wave buoy for Mar 2023, including available wave height, period, direction, wind and sea temperature data.

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Period Summary

Programmatically generated summary. Hog Says

1,485 wave-buoy observations covered all 31 days. Typical wave height was 4.5 ft (10th–90th percentile 2.3–8.3 ft), while mean average wave period was 5 seconds (10th–90th percentile 4.1–6 seconds). All 4,455 checked values passed quality control. Across 13 comparable years, mean wave height was above the same-month mean of 3.8 ft and mean wave period was the same as the same-month mean of 5 seconds.

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

Typical Significant Wave Height

4.5ft
Mean: 5 ft
P10–P90: 2.3 — 8.3 ft
Recorded extremes

1.3 — 13.9 ft

Mean Observed Wave Period

5secs
P10–P90: 4.1 — 6secs
Recorded extremes

2.9 — 7.2secs

Typical Observed Wind

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Mean: - mph
P10–P90: - — - mph

Available for 0 of 743 hourly samples

Mean Water Temperature

-°C
P10–P90: - — -°C

Available for 0 of 743 hourly samples

Compared With Previous Marchs

Historical baseline from 17,318 observations across 13 years.

Wave Height
5ft
1.2ft above mean
Historical mean 3.839ft
Wave Period
5s
In line with the historical mean
Historical mean 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 Mar 2023Last observation shown
Metric
Mean significant wave height (ft)32610657334559986522236565675544
Mean average wave height (ft)-------------------------------
Mean maximum wave height (ft)4411169710556881414131073244989710117867
Mean average period (s)6556555555556665554445555565545
Mean zero-crossing period (s)6556545545455665454445555555545
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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