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Anglet wave buoy daily means for May 2012

Daily means from the Anglet wave buoy for May 2012, 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 3.2 ft (10th–90th percentile 1.4–5.3 ft), while mean peak wave period was 8.7 seconds (10th–90th percentile 5.6–11.4 seconds). Typical calculated wave power was approximately 3 kW/m (10th–90th percentile 0.6–10.3 kW/m), derived from significant wave height and energy period. 14 of 4,464 checked values (0.3%) were excluded by quality control. Across 2 comparable years, mean wave height was below the same-month mean of 4.5 ft and mean wave period was below the same-month mean of 10.1 seconds.

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

Typical Significant Wave Height

3.2ft
Mean: 3.4 ft
P10–P90: 1.4 — 5.3 ft
Recorded extremes

0.9 — 15.3 ft

Mean Observed Wave Period

8.7secs
P10–P90: 5.6 — 11.4secs
Recorded extremes

2.8 — 13.9secs

Available for 743 of 744 hourly samples

Typical Wave Power

Approximately 3.04kW/m
Mean: 5.49kW/m
P10–P90: 0.58 — 10.31kW/m
Recorded extremes

0.24 — 87.3kW/m

Calculated from significant wave height and energy period.

Typical Observed Wind

-, -mph
Mean: - mph
P10–P90: - — - mph

Available for 0 of 744 hourly samples

Mean Water Temperature

-°C
P10–P90: - — -°C

Available for 0 of 744 hourly samples

Compared With Previous Mays

Historical baseline from 2,975 observations across 2 years.

Wave Height
3.4ft
1.1ft below mean
Historical mean 4.462ft
Wave Period
8.7s
1.4s below mean
Historical mean 10.1s
Water Temperature
–
Not enough comparable data

Chart showing grouped wave observations for Anglet. 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 Anglet wave buoy

Anglet is a CANDHIS directional buoy on the French Basque coast, operated within the national sea-state observatory coordinated by Cerema. It records the highly exposed southern Bay of Biscay setting off Anglet's beaches, close to the Adour estuary and the approaches to Bayonne.

Its current data source reports wave height, wave period, wave direction, directional spread and sea temperature.

Metrics are rows; days run left to right.
Anglet wave buoy daily means May 2012Last observation shown
Metric
Mean significant wave height (ft)QC rejected2112321223442463445QC rejected6443444322
Mean maximum wave height (ft)73223522335763684658199665766443
Mean peak period (s)981111979789877510111099787101111899989
Mean average period (s)888656757876647977768781011799666
Mean period Tm02 (s)7654445466555457565565688577545
Mean peak wave directionWNWconcentration 99%WNWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 98%WNWconcentration 97%WNWconcentration 96%WNWconcentration 99%WNWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 92%WNWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 99%WNWconcentration 97%NNWconcentration 100%NNWconcentration 99%NNWconcentration 99%NWconcentration 96%NWconcentration 100%NWconcentration 96%WNWconcentration 98%WNWconcentration 99%NWconcentration 97%NWconcentration 99%NWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 99%WNWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 99%WNWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 99%WNWconcentration 99%
Mean directional spread (°)26.130.532.441.631.021.029.426.926.025.624.423.222.328.522.821.427.319.123.329.024.430.127.422.226.522.119.017.624.022.426.8
Mean water temperature(°C)-------------------------------

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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 Cerema CANDHIS coastal wave observatory.

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

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