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Happisburgh wave buoy daily means for Nov 2020

Daily means from the Happisburgh wave buoy for Nov 2020, including available wave height, period, direction, wind and sea temperature data.

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Period Summary

Programmatically generated summary. Hog Says

1,433 wave-buoy observations covered all 30 days. Typical wave height was 1.5 ft (10th–90th percentile 0.9–2.4 ft), while mean average of more than one wave period type was 6.6 seconds (10th–90th percentile 4.2–11.5 seconds). Mean water temperature was 10.2°C (10th–90th percentile 8.9–11.2°C). 13 of 5,697 checked values (0.2%) were excluded by quality control. Across 6 comparable years, mean wave height was below the same-month mean of 2.5 ft and mean wave period was below the same-month mean of 6.8 seconds.

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

Typical Significant Wave Height

1.5ft
Mean: 1.7 ft
P10–P90: 0.9 — 2.4 ft
Recorded extremes

0.5 — 7.8 ft

Mean Observed Wave Period

6.6secs
P10–P90: 4.2 — 11.5secs
Recorded extremes

2 — 22.2secs

Available for 718 of 719 hourly samples

Observed Wave Direction

NE

Circular concentration: 77%

Mean Water Temperature

10.2°C
P10–P90: 8.9 — 11.2°C
Recorded extremes

8.7 — 11.8°C

Compared With Previous Novembers

Historical baseline from 8,434 observations across 6 years.

Wave Height
1.7ft
0.8ft below mean
Historical mean 2.526ft
Wave Period
6.6s
0.2s below mean
Historical mean 6.8s
Water Temperature
10.2°C
0.4°C above mean
Historical mean 9.8°C

Chart showing grouped wave observations for Happisburgh. 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 Happisburgh wave buoy

Happisburgh is a Channel Coastal Observatory wave station off the northeast Norfolk coast. It supplies a nearshore North Sea record for one of England's most rapidly changing soft-cliff frontages, where communities, beaches and coastal defences are exposed to frequent erosion.

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

Metrics are rows; days run left to right.
Happisburgh wave buoy daily means Nov 2020Last observation shown
Metric
Mean significant wave height (ft)222222211112112211QC rejected31221111222
Mean peak period (s)6756811646556557566813129885410654
Mean zero-crossing period (s)444555444444444444575554445444
Mean peak wave directionEconcentration 92%ENEconcentration 77%Nconcentration 76%Nconcentration 99%Nconcentration 99%NNEconcentration 91%ENEconcentration 91%Econcentration 97%ENEconcentration 94%ENEconcentration 98%ENEconcentration 91%ENEconcentration 83%Econcentration 98%Econcentration 88%Econcentration 99%Nconcentration 93%NEconcentration 83%ENEconcentration 86%Nconcentration 98%NNEconcentration 99%NNEconcentration 94%Nconcentration 95%Nconcentration 98%NEconcentration 77%ENEconcentration 71%Nconcentration 98%NNEconcentration 99%ENEconcentration 88%ENEconcentration 99%Nconcentration 89%
Mean directional spread (°)31.534.533.322.623.729.427.926.733.028.026.829.829.828.923.538.539.031.927.524.233.327.421.633.826.831.131.329.023.526.9
Mean water temperature(°C)11.411.711.411.110.810.710.510.510.610.610.610.610.410.410.510.310.310.410.39.89.79.79.49.39.29.08.98.98.98.9

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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 Regional Coastal Monitoring Programme.

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

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