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Lunan bay

★★★★★Small
Beach break Faces SE all tides Offshore South West Best swell south-east
Surf now1–2ft0.7 m at 5 s from the SE, wind sea 0.2 m from the S
Wind8mphSW · cross-off · gusts 13
Tide 2.8mFalling · low 22:38 (1.2 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Fri
1–2 ft Swell SE 5s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Sat
1–2 ft Swell SE 4s Wind 6 mph ★★★★★
Sun
0–1 ft Swell NE 4s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Mon
0–1 ft Swell NE 5s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Tue
1–2 ft Swell NE 4s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Wed
1–2 ft Swell E 4s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0–1 ft Swell E 3s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Fri 30 Sat 31 Sun 1 Mon 2 Tue 3 Wed 4 Thu 5
Time 19 06 09 12 15 18 06 09 12 15 18 06 09 12 15 18 06 09 12 15 18 06 09 12 15 18 06 09 12 15 18
Surf ft 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1
Swell 5s 4s 4s 4s 2s 3s 4s 4s 4s 4s 4s 5s 5s 5s 5s 5s 4s 4s 4s 4s 4s 4s 4s 4s 4s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s
Wind mph 8 6 8 11 11 7 7 8 5 5 6 6 6 3 4 4 4 4 9 7 4 7 7 9 7 6 5 8 11 10 9
Tide m 3.5↓ 4.5↓ 2.6↓ 1.9↑ 3.6↑ 4.4↓ 4.3↑ 3.4↓ 2.1↓ 3.0↑ 4.2↑ 3.7↑ 3.9↓ 2.6↓ 2.5↑ 3.7↑ 2.9↑ 4.1↑ 3.2↓ 2.3↑ 3.2↑ 2.2↑ 3.9↑ 3.8↓ 2.3↓ 2.5↑ 1.6↑ 3.4↑ 4.3↓ 2.6↓ 2.0↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Lunan bay faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Montrose above chart datum, rising ↑ or falling ↓; the rating drops when the tide is outside the window this break works on. Amber marks the sessions worth setting an alarm for. From Tuesday the swell comes from Météo-France's 10-day model, which is coarser than the 5 km German model used close in. Hours no model reaches are left blank, not shown as flat.

Exposure

Lunan bay faces south-east. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from NE round to SE; the brighter a wedge, the deeper the water in that direction and the more of the swell gets in. Anything from behind the headlands scores nothing, however big the buoy says it is.

NESWfaces SESES
SE
0.7 m at 5 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
S
0.2 m at 2 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Lunan bay works

Swell
Best from the south-east.
Wind
Offshore is from the south west; anything with south-east in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
all tides.

Lefts and rights breaking on shifting sand bars all along the beach. On the north end of the shore by the rocks is a good left sheltered by dunes

Tide times

  • Fri 22:38Low1.2 m
  • Sat 05:20High4.6 m
  • Sat 10:59Low1.8 m
  • Sat 17:34High4.5 m
  • Sat 23:43Low1.4 m
  • Sun 06:29High4.3 m
  • Sun 12:07Low2.1 m
  • Sun 18:43High4.2 m

Montrose station, 6 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
The way down to the beach, Lunan Bay - geograph.org.uk - 5555525 Line of similarly shaped marks on Lunan Bay Beach - geograph.org.uk - 6176170

Richard Sutcliffe, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Andrew Diack, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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