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Spurn Point wave buoy daily means for Aug 2024

Daily means from the Spurn Point wave buoy for Aug 2024, 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 1.3 ft (10th–90th percentile 0.7–2.3 ft), while mean average of more than one wave period type was 4.2 seconds (10th–90th percentile 2.6–5.5 seconds). Mean water temperature was 17.2°C (10th–90th percentile 16.1–18.3°C). 6 of 5,903 checked values (0.1%) were excluded by quality control.

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

Typical Significant Wave Height

1.3ft
Mean: 1.4 ft
P10–P90: 0.7 — 2.3 ft
Recorded extremes

0.3 — 5.6 ft

Mean Observed Wave Period

4.2secs
P10–P90: 2.6 — 5.5secs
Recorded extremes

1.7 — 12.5secs

Available for 742 of 743 hourly samples

Observed Wave Direction

SE

Circular concentration: 44%

Mean Water Temperature

17.2°C
P10–P90: 16.1 — 18.3°C
Recorded extremes

15.3 — 19.6°C

Chart showing grouped wave observations for Spurn Point. 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 Spurn Point wave buoy

Spurn Point is a Channel Coastal Observatory wave station off the narrow spit at the mouth of the Humber. It records North Sea conditions beside a highly mobile coastal landform and provides context for the estuary entrance, nearby shipping routes and the exposed southern Holderness coast.

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

Metrics are rows; days run left to right.
Spurn Point wave buoy daily means Aug 2024Last observation shown
Metric
Mean significant wave height (ft)2111111221132221111222222121112
Mean peak period (s)44433434434554344334444434441174
Mean zero-crossing period (s)3333333333344333333333333333433
Mean peak wave directionEconcentration 97%Econcentration 99%Econcentration 84%SSWconcentration 36%Sconcentration 73%SEconcentration 66%SSWconcentration 62%Sconcentration 72%WSWconcentration 52%SSWconcentration 59%ESEconcentration 81%ESEconcentration 97%Econcentration 96%ENEconcentration 91%SSWconcentration 73%Econcentration 83%SEconcentration 67%WSWconcentration 73%Sconcentration 55%Sconcentration 56%WSWconcentration 73%Sconcentration 71%Variableconcentration 28%SSEconcentration 45%SWconcentration 94%SSEconcentration 67%SEconcentration 82%ESEconcentration 98%ENEconcentration 99%ENEconcentration 97%Econcentration 96%
Mean directional spread (°)32.631.235.939.138.340.138.330.337.738.136.123.826.334.135.134.138.137.740.038.734.936.631.835.038.234.429.929.138.739.333.7
Mean water temperature(°C)17.818.018.017.917.817.717.517.417.417.417.617.918.218.017.917.717.617.517.417.216.916.616.616.416.216.116.316.316.316.316.3

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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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