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Anglet wave buoy daily means for Mar 2014

Daily means from the Anglet wave buoy for Mar 2014, including available wave height, period, direction, wind and sea temperature data.

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Period Summary

Programmatically generated summary. Hog Says

1,486 wave-buoy observations covered all 31 days. Typical wave height was 6.2 ft (10th–90th percentile 3.2–15.1 ft), while mean peak wave period was 12.4 seconds (10th–90th percentile 10.5–14.6 seconds). Typical calculated wave power was approximately 19.4 kW/m (10th–90th percentile 3.9–113 kW/m), derived from significant wave height and energy period. 14 of 4,458 checked values (0.3%) were excluded by quality control. Across 4 comparable years, mean wave height was above the same-month mean of 4.7 ft and mean wave period was above the same-month mean of 10.9 seconds.

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

Typical Significant Wave Height

6.2ft
Mean: 7.8 ft
P10–P90: 3.2 — 15.1 ft
Recorded extremes

2.1 — 33.1 ft

Mean Observed Wave Period

12.4secs
P10–P90: 10.5 — 14.6secs
Recorded extremes

4.7 — 18.8secs

Available for 742 of 743 hourly samples

Typical Wave Power

Approximately 19.44kW/m
Mean: 46.69kW/m
P10–P90: 3.92 — 113.02kW/m
Recorded extremes

1.55 — 708.77kW/m

Calculated from significant wave height and energy period.

Typical Observed Wind

-, -mph
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 5,943 observations across 4 years.

Wave Height
7.8ft
3.1ft above mean
Historical mean 4.724ft
Wave Period
12.4s
1.5s above mean
Historical mean 10.9s
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 Mar 2014Last observation shown
Metric
Mean significant wave height (ft)1482020127565QC rejected6444333445710138151685754
Mean maximum wave height (ft)21123030181171071396765446581115201324241281186
Mean peak period (s)1413131512121114141412121312111010913121212131211131212131217
Mean average period (s)131211141111111313141111121187869111110111010121011131214
Mean period Tm02 (s)10991089911911891195665699788898911911
Mean peak wave directionWNWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 100%NWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 99%NWconcentration 100%NWconcentration 100%NWconcentration 99%WNWconcentration 99%WNWconcentration 100%NWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 99%WNWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 100%
Mean directional spread (°)19.822.520.519.323.527.327.723.826.220.124.630.726.524.928.526.926.526.127.123.422.022.321.823.521.621.925.226.123.026.225.1
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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