Barvas surf forecast

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Barvas

★★★★★Good

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

Best of the week: today around 16:00, 6–8 ft and offshore.

Surf now6–9ft2.2 m at 8 s from the NW, wind sea 1.7 m from the W

Wind13mphSW · cross-off · gusts 22

Tide 2.3mFalling · low 02:45 (1.5 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe

Sat

6–8 ft Swell NW 9s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★

Sun

13–18 ft Swell N 12s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★

Mon

9–13 ft Swell N 8s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★

Tue

6–8 ft Swell N 8s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★

Wed

6–8 ft Swell N 9s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★

Thu

6–8 ft Swell NE 10s Wind 3 mph ★★★★★

	Sat 14					Sun 15					Mon 16					Tue 17					Wed 18					Thu 19
Time	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	6–9	7–9	7–9	6–9	6–8	14–18	12–16	10–14	9–13	9–12	12–16	10–13	8–11	7–9	6–8	6–8	5–8	5–7	5–7	5–6	5–6	5–7	5–8	6–8	6–8	6–8	6–8	5–8	5–7	5–7
Swell	9s	9s	9s	8s	9s	13s	12s	12s	11s	11s	10s	10s	9s	9s	9s	8s	7s	7s	7s	7s	7s	8s	8s	9s	9s	10s	10s	10s	9s	9s
Wind mph	13	12	15	9	10	10	5	4	13	9	15	10	9	9	8	13	12	12	11	9	10	10	10	8	7	4	3	5	4	4
Tide m	2.6↑	3.7↑	2.8↓	1.5↓	2.2↑	2.3↑	3.5↑	3.1↓	1.8↓	2.0↑	2.1↑	3.2↑	3.3↓	2.2↓	1.9↑	2.1↑	2.8↑	3.3↓	2.6↓	1.8↓	2.1↓	2.4↑	3.3↑	3.0↓	2.0↓	2.3↓	2.0↑	3.0↑	3.4↓	2.3↓
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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.

NW: 2.2 m at 8 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
W: 1.7 m at 6 s (wind sea) · 50 % reaches the beach

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.