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Les Pierres Noires wave buoy daily means for Mar 2016

Daily means from the Les Pierres Noires wave buoy for Mar 2016, including available wave height, period, direction, wind and sea temperature data.

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Period Summary

Programmatically generated summary. Hog Says

1,436 wave-buoy observations covered all 31 days. Typical wave height was 6.7 ft (10th–90th percentile 2.9–15.1 ft), while mean average of more than one wave period type was 11.6 seconds (10th–90th percentile 9.7–14 seconds). Typical calculated wave power was approximately 18.6 kW/m (10th–90th percentile 2.7–92.7 kW/m), derived from significant wave height and energy period. 10 of 4,248 checked values (0.2%) were excluded by quality control. Across 6 comparable years, mean wave height was above the same-month mean of 6.4 ft and mean wave period was above the same-month mean of 11.4 seconds.

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

Typical Significant Wave Height

6.7ft
Mean: 7.8 ft
P10–P90: 2.9 — 15.1 ft
Recorded extremes

1.3 — 24.7 ft

Mean Observed Wave Period

11.6secs
P10–P90: 9.7 — 14secs
Recorded extremes

3.2 — 18.9secs

Available for 732 of 733 hourly samples

Typical Wave Power

Approximately 18.61kW/m
Mean: 34.66kW/m
P10–P90: 2.66 — 92.65kW/m
Recorded extremes

0.54 — 319.05kW/m

Calculated from significant wave height and energy period.

Available for 707 of 733 hourly samples with wave power

Typical Observed Wind

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Mean: - mph
P10–P90: - — - mph

Available for 0 of 733 hourly samples

Mean Water Temperature

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P10–P90: - — -°C

Available for 0 of 733 hourly samples

Compared With Previous Marchs

Historical baseline from 8,735 observations across 6 years.

Wave Height
7.8ft
1.4ft above mean
Historical mean 6.43ft
Wave Period
11.6s
0.2s above mean
Historical mean 11.4s
Water Temperature
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Not enough comparable data

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About Les Pierres Noires wave buoy

Les Pierres Noires is a CANDHIS directional buoy west of Brittany, maintained through the French national sea-state observatory and its scientific and maritime partners. Its position near the offshore reef and lighthouse represents fully exposed Atlantic conditions approaching the Iroise Sea and western Brittany.

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

Metrics are rows; days run left to right.
Les Pierres Noires wave buoy daily means Mar 2016Last observation shown
Metric
Mean significant wave height (ft)916131112786QC rejected846645445332247813181913107
Mean maximum wave height (ft)14241917191012102012710967668553361212192730191511
Mean peak period (s)8111211131111101011111312131513141312101011111211121213121212
Mean average period (s)710101011910891010121181281012745911119101111101010
Mean peak wave directionWconcentration 99%WNWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 99%WNWconcentration 96%WNWconcentration 96%WNWconcentration 99%Wconcentration 100%Wconcentration 100%Wconcentration 99%Wconcentration 99%Wconcentration 100%Wconcentration 100%Wconcentration 100%WSWconcentration 100%Wconcentration 92%Wconcentration 62%Wconcentration 100%Wconcentration 100%Wconcentration 100%Wconcentration 100%Wconcentration 100%Wconcentration 97%Wconcentration 99%WSWconcentration 100%Wconcentration 100%Wconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 100%
Mean directional spread (°)26.723.422.824.021.324.923.027.424.326.230.926.726.931.425.529.329.025.133.236.332.827.526.926.226.127.126.329.726.724.023.0
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.

Observation data source

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

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