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Lowestoft wave buoy daily means for Aug 2022

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

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Period Summary

Programmatically generated summary. Hog Says

1,484 wave-buoy observations covered all 31 days. Typical wave height was 1.6 ft (10th–90th percentile 1–2.9 ft), while mean average of more than one wave period type was 4.6 seconds (10th–90th percentile 3.3–6 seconds). Mean water temperature was 20.3°C (10th–90th percentile 19.8–20.8°C). All 5,925 checked values passed quality control. Across 6 comparable years, mean wave height was below the same-month mean of 2.2 ft and mean wave period was below the same-month mean of 5.2 seconds.

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

Typical Significant Wave Height

1.6ft
Mean: 1.8 ft
P10–P90: 1 — 2.9 ft
Recorded extremes

0.6 — 6.5 ft

Mean Observed Wave Period

4.6secs
P10–P90: 3.3 — 6secs
Recorded extremes

1.7 — 9.1secs

Observed Wave Direction

E

Circular concentration: 63%

Mean Water Temperature

20.3°C
P10–P90: 19.8 — 20.8°C
Recorded extremes

19.2 — 21.1°C

Compared With Previous Augusts

Historical baseline from 8,856 observations across 6 years.

Wave Height
1.8ft
0.4ft below mean
Historical mean 2.198ft
Wave Period
4.6s
0.6s below mean
Historical mean 5.2s
Water Temperature
20.3°C
1.4°C above mean
Historical mean 18.9°C

Chart showing grouped wave observations for Lowestoft. 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 Lowestoft wave buoy

Lowestoft is a Channel Coastal Observatory wave station off the Suffolk coast at Britain's most easterly town. Its North Sea observations provide local context for the harbour approaches, developed seafront and low-lying coastline around Lowestoft and northern Suffolk.

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

Metrics are rows; days run left to right.
Lowestoft wave buoy daily means Aug 2022Last observation shown
Metric
Mean significant wave height (ft)2321111112121111222221221223335
Mean maximum wave height (ft)3441222223222122332332332334558
Mean peak period (s)5554456444444544454553443557656
Mean zero-crossing period (s)4443344333333333343333333444445
Mean energy period (s)-------------------------------
Mean wave power, kilowatts per metre-------------------------------
Mean peak wave directionNEconcentration 75%Sconcentration 98%SSEconcentration 99%Econcentration 70%NNEconcentration 82%NEconcentration 97%NEconcentration 97%NEconcentration 83%Econcentration 83%Econcentration 97%Econcentration 95%ENEconcentration 95%ENEconcentration 91%ENEconcentration 92%SEconcentration 73%SEconcentration 91%NEconcentration 81%ENEconcentration 81%ESEconcentration 70%SSEconcentration 95%Sconcentration 97%SEconcentration 93%SSEconcentration 78%SSEconcentration 97%NEconcentration 74%NEconcentration 96%ENEconcentration 98%NEconcentration 99%NEconcentration 98%ENEconcentration 97%ENEconcentration 99%
Mean directional spread (°)45.530.531.049.039.348.947.645.446.337.444.944.143.946.941.348.439.040.145.331.530.536.434.934.539.139.241.334.035.037.427.8
Mean water temperature(°C)19.519.619.819.919.819.819.819.919.919.920.120.220.320.520.620.720.720.720.820.720.620.620.720.920.920.820.620.520.220.019.8

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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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