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Île de Batz wave buoy daily means for May 2020

Daily means from the Île de Batz 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 2.5 ft (10th–90th percentile 1.3–5.5 ft), while mean peak wave period was 9.1 seconds (10th–90th percentile 5.4–12.1 seconds). Typical calculated wave power was approximately 2 kW/m (10th–90th percentile 0.5–12.5 kW/m), derived from significant wave height and energy period. 15 of 4,464 checked values (0.3%) were excluded by quality control. Across 1 comparable year, mean wave height was above the same-month mean of 2.8 ft and mean wave period was above the same-month mean of 8.8 seconds.

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

Typical Significant Wave Height

2.5ft
Mean: 3 ft
P10–P90: 1.3 — 5.5 ft
Recorded extremes

0.9 — 9.8 ft

Mean Observed Wave Period

9.1secs
P10–P90: 5.4 — 12.1secs
Recorded extremes

3.2 — 20.4secs

Available for 742 of 744 hourly samples

Typical Wave Power

Approximately 1.99kW/m
Mean: 4.57kW/m
P10–P90: 0.5 — 12.5kW/m
Recorded extremes

0.25 — 45.01kW/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 1,488 observations across 1 year.

Wave Height
3ft
0.2ft above mean
Historical mean 2.789ft
Wave Period
9.1s
0.3s above mean
Historical mean 8.8s
Water Temperature
–
Not enough comparable data

Chart showing grouped wave observations for Île de Batz. 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 Île de Batz wave buoy

Île de Batz is a CANDHIS directional buoy off northern Brittany, within the French national sea-state observatory coordinated by Cerema. The station sits at the western entrance to the English Channel, where Atlantic swell rounds Brittany towards the exposed Finistère and Channel coasts.

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

Metrics are rows; days run left to right.
Île de Batz wave buoy daily means May 2020Last observation shown
Metric
Mean significant wave height (ft)QC rejected322321112733422233324854443222
Mean maximum wave height (ft)953453222310556443444461286764334
Mean peak period (s)10998768109986571291099101012131111121296810
Mean average period (s)887676775675566678899811101011118557
Mean period Tm02 (s)6655555544644444576876888986445
Mean peak wave directionWNWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 100%Wconcentration 100%NWconcentration 78%Nconcentration 99%Nconcentration 98%NWconcentration 87%WNWconcentration 93%NWconcentration 85%NWconcentration 81%Nconcentration 100%NNEconcentration 100%NNEconcentration 100%NNEconcentration 99%WNWconcentration 95%WNWconcentration 93%WNWconcentration 99%WNWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 100%NWconcentration 82%Nconcentration 91%NWconcentration 76%WNWconcentration 100%
Mean directional spread (°)25.326.029.629.524.031.037.240.835.331.721.623.123.021.131.028.427.924.024.325.426.527.121.022.423.222.721.724.723.327.727.0
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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