Barvas surf forecast

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★★★★★Firing

Point break Faces NW all tides Offshore South Best swell North West

Best of the week: Monday around 15:00, 6–8 ft and offshore.

Surf now5–7ft1.7 m at 11 s from the W, wind sea 0.3 m from the S

Wind15mphS · offshore · gusts 26

Tide 3.9mRising · high 18:29 (4.1 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe

Sat

5–7 ft Swell W 11s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★

Sun

37–48 ft Swell NW 12s Wind 41 mph ★★★★★

Mon

6–8 ft Swell NW 9s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★

Tue

7–9 ft Swell W 11s Wind 27 mph ★★★★★

Wed

9–13 ft Swell NW 8s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★

Thu

5–7 ft Swell NW 7s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★

Fri

2–4 ft Swell SW 9s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★

	Sat 24	Sun 25					Mon 26					Tue 27					Wed 28					Thu 29					Fri 30
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	5–7	18–24	33–43	36–47	31–41	27–35	10–14	8–11	7–10	6–8	4–6	7–9	3–4	4–6	11–15	18–24	12–16	11–15	10–14	10–14	9–12	5–7	4–6	3–4	3–4	2–4	2–3	2–3	2–3	2–3	2–4
Swell	11s	10s	11s	12s	12s	11s	10s	9s	9s	9s	9s	11s	6s	7s	9s	10s	8s	9s	9s	9s	8s	7s	7s	7s	8s	8s	8s	9s	9s	9s	9s
Wind mph	15	42	41	41	38	34	13	6	11	19	20	27	29	39	38	36	23	19	23	20	19	15	17	19	19	21	13	13	13	10	9
Tide m	4.1↑	4.0↑	2.4↓	1.0↑	2.6↑	4.3↑	4.1↑	3.0↓	0.9↓	2.1↑	4.2↑	3.9↑	3.5↓	1.0↓	1.5↑	3.9↑	3.6↑	3.9↓	1.4↓	1.2↑	3.4↑	3.2↑	4.1↓	2.0↓	1.0↑	2.7↑	–	–	–	–	–
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Barvas faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Carloway 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

Barvas faces north-west. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from W round to NE; 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.

W: 1.7 m at 11 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
S: 0.3 m at 3 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Barvas works

Swell: Best from the north west.
Wind: Offshore is from the south; anything with north-west in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide: all tides.
Getting there: On the north coast road near the main turn off to stornoway. Head for Barvas, and then over a firing reange to a small car park near the break.

A nice easy right hand point break. Breaks down a massive boulder point. Easy paddle out, easy surfing, but one of the longest waves i've ever surfed.