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Les Pierres Noires wave buoy daily means for Apr 2016

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

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Period Summary

Programmatically generated summary. Hog Says

1,425 wave-buoy observations covered all 30 days. Typical wave height was 5 ft (10th–90th percentile 2.1–10.6 ft), while mean average of more than one wave period type was 9.8 seconds (10th–90th percentile 6.7–12.9 seconds). Typical calculated wave power was approximately 8.3 kW/m (10th–90th percentile 1.3–50.6 kW/m), derived from significant wave height and energy period. 12 of 4,263 checked values (0.3%) were excluded by quality control. Across 6 comparable years, mean wave height was above the same-month mean of 5.6 ft and mean wave period was below the same-month mean of 10.7 seconds.

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

Typical Significant Wave Height

5ft
Mean: 5.7 ft
P10–P90: 2.1 — 10.6 ft
Recorded extremes

1.1 — 14.2 ft

Mean Observed Wave Period

9.8secs
P10–P90: 6.7 — 12.9secs
Recorded extremes

2.8 — 16.7secs

Available for 718 of 720 hourly samples

Typical Wave Power

Approximately 8.27kW/m
Mean: 17.62kW/m
P10–P90: 1.27 — 50.64kW/m
Recorded extremes

0.43 — 103.43kW/m

Calculated from significant wave height and energy period.

Available for 718 of 720 hourly samples with wave power

Typical Observed Wind

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Mean: - mph
P10–P90: - — - mph

Available for 0 of 720 hourly samples

Mean Water Temperature

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P10–P90: - — -°C

Available for 0 of 720 hourly samples

Compared With Previous Aprils

Historical baseline from 7,545 observations across 6 years.

Wave Height
5.7ft
0.1ft above mean
Historical mean 5.577ft
Wave Period
9.8s
0.9s below mean
Historical mean 10.7s
Water Temperature
–
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 Apr 2016Last observation shown
Metric
Mean significant wave height (ft)711996711981285779422243332343454
Mean maximum wave height (ft)1017141491117131318129101214642455543565586
Mean peak period (s)101213121110131311131210109988861010981077121177
Mean average period (s)81010101081111910109978777579876567766
Mean peak wave directionWconcentration 98%Wconcentration 100%Wconcentration 99%Wconcentration 100%Wconcentration 100%Wconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 99%Wconcentration 100%Wconcentration 99%Wconcentration 89%Wconcentration 96%WSWconcentration 95%SWconcentration 100%SWconcentration 96%SWconcentration 100%WSWconcentration 89%Wconcentration 93%Wconcentration 97%Variableconcentration 23%WSWconcentration 55%SWconcentration 100%SWconcentration 98%SWconcentration 99%WSWconcentration 96%Wconcentration 89%WNWconcentration 99%Wconcentration 99%Wconcentration 97%WNWconcentration 99%WNWconcentration 100%
Mean directional spread (°)25.622.624.628.728.228.424.026.628.127.827.929.125.625.826.930.736.639.328.932.027.328.632.737.031.230.630.428.227.728.5
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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