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Île de Batz wave buoy daily means for Apr 2021

Daily means from the Île de Batz wave buoy for Apr 2021, including available wave height, period, direction, wind and sea temperature data.

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Period Summary

Programmatically generated summary. Hog Says

1,440 wave-buoy observations covered all 30 days. Typical wave height was 2.6 ft (10th–90th percentile 1.1–4.6 ft), while mean peak wave period was 7.4 seconds (10th–90th percentile 4.4–11.5 seconds). Typical calculated wave power was approximately 2 kW/m (10th–90th percentile 0.3–6.3 kW/m), derived from significant wave height and energy period. 10 of 4,320 checked values (0.2%) were excluded by quality control. Across 2 comparable years, mean wave height was below the same-month mean of 3.3 ft and mean wave period was below the same-month mean of 10.3 seconds.

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

Typical Significant Wave Height

2.6ft
Mean: 2.7 ft
P10–P90: 1.1 — 4.6 ft
Recorded extremes

0.6 — 8.1 ft

Mean Observed Wave Period

7.4secs
P10–P90: 4.4 — 11.5secs
Recorded extremes

2.2 — 15.7secs

Available for 718 of 720 hourly samples

Typical Wave Power

Approximately 1.98kW/m
Mean: 2.73kW/m
P10–P90: 0.32 — 6.25kW/m
Recorded extremes

0.12 — 19.2kW/m

Calculated from significant wave height and energy period.

Typical Observed Wind

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

Available for 0 of 720 hourly samples

Mean Water Temperature

-°C
P10–P90: - — -°C

Available for 0 of 720 hourly samples

Compared With Previous Aprils

Historical baseline from 2,880 observations across 2 years.

Wave Height
2.7ft
0.6ft below mean
Historical mean 3.314ft
Wave Period
7.4s
2.9s below mean
Historical mean 10.3s
Water Temperature
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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 Apr 2021Last observation shown
Metric
Mean significant wave height (ft)344245421242112224333333552221
Mean maximum wave height (ft)476368621364223326554545772442
Mean peak period (s)10769666787665555813131210766776569
Mean average period (s)966656657556544461112108656765567
Mean period Tm02 (s)755445545454444448976445554455
Mean peak wave directionWNWconcentration 92%NNEconcentration 100%NNEconcentration 100%NWconcentration 80%NWconcentration 99%NNWconcentration 99%NNWconcentration 96%NWconcentration 96%WNWconcentration 100%NNWconcentration 86%NNWconcentration 94%NWconcentration 95%NNWconcentration 83%Nconcentration 92%NNEconcentration 99%Nconcentration 96%NWconcentration 82%WNWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 100%NWconcentration 85%NNEconcentration 100%NNEconcentration 100%NNEconcentration 100%NNEconcentration 100%NNEconcentration 100%NNWconcentration 89%NWconcentration 97%NNWconcentration 92%WNWconcentration 94%
Mean directional spread (°)28.921.520.627.529.928.430.030.229.928.731.431.931.526.925.825.828.422.319.921.322.521.220.720.820.721.331.334.734.633.0
Mean water temperature(°C)------------------------------

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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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