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Happisburgh wave buoy daily means for Jul 2022

Daily means from the Happisburgh wave buoy for Jul 2022, including available wave height, period, direction, wind and sea temperature data.

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Period Summary

Programmatically generated summary. Hog Says

1,485 wave-buoy observations covered all 31 days. Typical wave height was 1.5 ft (10th–90th percentile 0.7–3.1 ft), while mean average of more than one wave period type was 5.5 seconds (10th–90th percentile 3.5–8 seconds). Mean water temperature was 19°C (10th–90th percentile 17.6–20°C). 1 of 5,922 checked values (0%) were excluded by quality control. Across 9 comparable years, mean wave height was above the same-month mean of 1.6 ft and mean wave period was the same as the same-month mean of 5.5 seconds.

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Typical Significant Wave Height

1.5ft
Mean: 1.8 ft
P10–P90: 0.73.1 ft
Recorded extremes

0.46.5 ft

Mean Observed Wave Period

5.5secs
P10–P90: 3.5 — 8secs
Recorded extremes

1.7 — 11.8secs

Observed Wave Direction

NE

Circular concentration: 79%

Mean Water Temperature

19°C
P10–P90: 17.6 — 20°C
Recorded extremes

17.4 — 20.6°C

Compared With Previous Julys

Historical baseline from 13,342 observations across 9 years.

Wave Height
1.8ft
0.2ft above mean
Historical mean 1.575ft
Wave Period
5.5s
In line with the historical mean
Historical mean 5.5s
Water Temperature
19°C
0.9°C above mean
Historical mean 18.1°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 Jul 2022Last observation shown
Metric
Mean significant wave height (ft)1111224222211212111143211333211
Mean peak period (s)55445678676545655444677647106554
Mean zero-crossing period (s)3333444545433444433345543454443
Mean peak wave directionENEconcentration 86%Econcentration 90%NEconcentration 85%Nconcentration 85%Nconcentration 97%Nconcentration 94%Nconcentration 96%NNEconcentration 98%Nconcentration 97%NNEconcentration 98%NEconcentration 82%ENEconcentration 86%NNEconcentration 82%Nconcentration 95%NNEconcentration 99%NNEconcentration 97%ENEconcentration 83%ENEconcentration 81%Econcentration 80%Econcentration 58%Nconcentration 95%NNEconcentration 99%NEconcentration 88%NEconcentration 81%NNEconcentration 85%Nconcentration 94%NNEconcentration 99%ENEconcentration 89%ENEconcentration 98%ENEconcentration 98%NEconcentration 65%
Mean directional spread (°)37.037.542.932.725.726.620.825.825.225.828.536.531.231.930.329.829.835.635.132.722.323.726.335.041.923.830.028.929.131.932.6
Mean water temperature(°C)17.817.717.717.617.617.617.617.818.018.318.618.919.119.319.319.319.419.619.920.119.919.819.820.019.919.819.819.719.719.719.6

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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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