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Tresta East

★★★★★Flat
Faces SE low to mid tide Offshore West Best swell East
Surf now0ft0.8 m at 7 s from the S, wind sea 1.7 m from the W
Wind32mphW · cross-off · gusts 48
Tide 2.0mRising · high 19:06 (2.1 m). Works low to mid tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Mon
0 ft Swell W 5s Wind 32 mph ★★★★★
Tue
0 ft Swell W 3s Wind 22 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0 ft Swell NE 8s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0–1 ft Swell N 4s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Fri
1–2 ft Swell SW 3s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Sat
0 ft Swell SW 3s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Sun
0–1 ft Swell NW 3s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Mon 5 Tue 6 Wed 7 Thu 8 Fri 9 Sat 10 Sun 11
Time 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 06 09 12 15 18
Surf ft 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 0 0 0 0 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 0 0 0 0
Swell 5s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 8s 8s 9s 9s 9s 4s 3s 6s 5s 5s 4s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 6s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s
Wind mph 32 22 19 15 16 14 10 7 9 9 7 14 13 14 9 6 27 15 21 17 16 14 14 16 11 14 17 18 17 15 12
Tide m 2.0↑ 1.7↑ 2.0↓ 1.5↓ 1.3↑ 1.9↑ 1.5↑ 2.1↑ 1.6↓ 1.1↑ 1.7↑ 1.2↑ 2.2↑ 1.9↓ 1.0↓ 1.4↑ 0.9↑ 2.1↑ 2.1↓ 1.0↓ 1.1↑ 0.6↑ 1.9↑ 2.3↓ 1.1↓ 0.8↑ 0.5↑ 1.7↑ 2.4↓ 1.3↓ 0.7↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Tresta East faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Mid Yell 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 Thursday 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

Tresta East faces south-east. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from E 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 SESW
S
0.8 m at 7 s (swell) · 2 % reaches the beach
W
1.7 m at 5 s (wind sea) · 1 % reaches the beach

How Tresta East works

Swell
Best from the east.
Wind
Offshore is from the west; anything with south-east in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
low to mid tide.
Getting there
park at kirk walk 20 meters to beach

this is in Shetland, the watch out for the needle like pinnacles under the east banks

Tide times

  • Mon 19:06High2.1 m
  • Tue 01:37Low0.9 m
  • Tue 08:14High2.0 m
  • Tue 14:03Low1.3 m
  • Tue 20:18High2.2 m
  • Wed 02:37Low0.7 m
  • Wed 09:07High2.1 m
  • Wed 14:55Low1.1 m

Mid Yell station, 9 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Tresta Beach, Fetlar - geograph.org.uk - 1781987 Tresta Beach, Fetlar - geograph.org.uk - 1781990

Robbie, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Robbie, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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