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St Mary's Sound wave buoy daily means for Mar 2021

Daily means from the St Mary's Sound wave buoy for Mar 2021, including available wave height, period, direction, wind and sea temperature data.

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Period Summary

Programmatically generated summary. Hog Says

743 wave-buoy observations covered all 31 days. Typical wave height was 3.3 ft (10th–90th percentile 1.6–6.9 ft), while the reported wave period averaged 5 seconds (10th–90th percentile 4–6 seconds). Typical wind was 0 mph and mean water temperature was 10.2°C (10th–90th percentile 10.1–10.2°C). All 3,715 checked values passed quality control. Across 4 comparable years, mean wave height was below the same-month mean of 5.2 ft and mean wave period was below the same-month mean of 9.6 seconds.

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

Typical Significant Wave Height

3.3ft
Mean: 3.9 ft
P10–P90: 1.6 — 6.9 ft
Recorded extremes

0.9 — 12.7 ft

Mean Observed Wave Period

5secs
P10–P90: 4 — 6secs
Recorded extremes

3 — 8secs

Observed Wave Direction

WSW

Circular concentration: 45%

Mean Water Temperature

10.2°C
P10–P90: 10.1 — 10.2°C
Recorded extremes

9.9 — 10.9°C

Compared With Previous Marchs

Historical baseline from 2,971 observations across 4 years.

Wave Height
3.9ft
1.3ft below mean
Historical mean 5.2ft
Wave Period
5s
4.6s below mean
Historical mean 9.6s
Water Temperature
10.2°C
0.3°C above mean
Historical mean 9.9°C

Chart showing grouped wave observations for St Mary's Sound. 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 St Mary's Sound wave buoy

St Mary's Sound station lies between St Mary's and St Agnes in the Isles of Scilly. The National Network first deployed a Datawell Directional WaveRider here in May 2014, establishing a nearshore record for an archipelago exposed to Atlantic swell and important to local navigation and coastal management.

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.
St Mary's Sound wave buoy daily means Mar 2021Last observation shown
Metric
Mean significant wave height (ft)6632443239977432222221334657533
Mean maximum wave height (ft)-------------------------------
Mean peak period (s)-------------------------------
Mean zero-crossing period (s)-------------------------------
Mean energy period (s)-------------------------------
Mean reported period (s)5555445656666555544555454555556
Mean wave power, kilowatts per metre-------------------------------
Mean peak wave direction-------------------------------
Mean directional spread (°)-------------------------------
Mean reported wave directionESEconcentration 83%ESEconcentration 83%SSWconcentration 46%SSWconcentration 86%ESEconcentration 70%ESEconcentration 95%SSWconcentration 41%WNWconcentration 86%WSWconcentration 84%SSWconcentration 99%WSWconcentration 90%WSWconcentration 91%WSWconcentration 88%WSWconcentration 75%Wconcentration 68%WSWconcentration 73%NNWconcentration 51%NNWconcentration 56%NWconcentration 38%WSWconcentration 55%Wconcentration 84%Wconcentration 80%Sconcentration 93%WNWconcentration 59%Wconcentration 70%SWconcentration 95%WSWconcentration 74%SWconcentration 95%SWconcentration 75%Wconcentration 33%WSWconcentration 65%
Mean water temperature(°C)10.210.210.310.210.110.110.110.110.110.110.110.110.010.010.110.110.110.110.110.110.110.210.210.210.210.210.210.210.210.310.3

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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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