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Plateau du Four wave buoy daily means for May 2023

Daily means from the Plateau du Four wave buoy for May 2023, 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 1.4–4.4 ft), while mean peak wave period was 7.4 seconds (10th–90th percentile 3.2–11.4 seconds). Typical calculated wave power was approximately 1.5 kW/m (10th–90th percentile 0.5–6.2 kW/m), derived from significant wave height and energy period. 33 of 4,464 checked values (0.7%) were excluded by quality control. Across 13 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 8.3 seconds.

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

Typical Significant Wave Height

2.5ft
Mean: 2.7 ft
P10–P90: 1.4 — 4.4 ft
Recorded extremes

0.6 — 7.3 ft

Mean Observed Wave Period

7.4secs
P10–P90: 3.2 — 11.4secs
Recorded extremes

2.3 — 15.7secs

Available for 740 of 744 hourly samples

Typical Wave Power

Approximately 1.49kW/m
Mean: 2.66kW/m
P10–P90: 0.49 — 6.19kW/m
Recorded extremes

0.1 — 16.27kW/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 18,252 observations across 13 years.

Wave Height
2.7ft
0.6ft below mean
Historical mean 3.346ft
Wave Period
7.4s
0.9s below mean
Historical mean 8.3s
Water Temperature
–
Not enough comparable data

Chart showing grouped wave observations for Plateau du Four. 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 Plateau du Four wave buoy

Plateau du Four is a CANDHIS station associated with the SEM-REV offshore test site off Loire-Atlantique. Located near a shallow offshore bank west of Le Croisic, it supplies environmental context for marine-energy research and for an exposed sector between the Loire estuary and southern 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.
Plateau du Four wave buoy daily means May 2023Last observation shown
Metric
Mean significant wave height (ft)3233454356532233222322222221222
Mean maximum wave height (ft)5345786579754344333433443332443
Mean peak period (s)10999799999119711986491098653575333
Mean average period (s)8856687767875656434655444444333
Mean period Tm02 (s)5545566555654544433444433343333
Mean peak wave directionWSWconcentration 100%WSWconcentration 100%SWconcentration 45%WSWconcentration 98%WSWconcentration 100%WSWconcentration 100%WSWconcentration 100%WSWconcentration 100%Wconcentration 100%Wconcentration 100%Wconcentration 100%Wconcentration 94%WNWconcentration 72%Wconcentration 95%WNWconcentration 83%WNWconcentration 78%NWconcentration 55%Nconcentration 63%NNWconcentration 55%WNWconcentration 87%Wconcentration 73%WNWconcentration 57%Nconcentration 62%NNEconcentration 75%NNEconcentration 95%NNEconcentration 71%Nconcentration 32%Nconcentration 56%NNEconcentration 99%NNEconcentration 98%NNEconcentration 95%
Mean directional spread (°)22.425.624.725.425.421.523.224.325.122.721.224.127.525.228.627.528.831.929.927.027.726.129.227.029.431.034.328.726.328.628.2
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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