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Black Middens

★★★★★Small
River mouth Faces SE mid to high tide Offshore North West Best swell North East
Surf now0–1ft0.2 m at 4 s from the SE, wind sea 0.3 m from the SW
Wind10mphSW · cross-on · gusts 19
Tide 2.3mRising · high 22:37 (4.1 m). Works mid to high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
0–1 ft Swell SW 2s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Mon
1–2 ft Swell SE 4s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Tue
0 ft Swell N 7s Wind 6 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0 ft Swell N 5s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0 ft Swell N 4s Wind 23 mph ★★★★★
Fri
0–1 ft Swell N 7s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Sat
0 ft Swell N 7s Wind 25 mph ★★★★★
Sun 4 Mon 5 Tue 6 Wed 7 Thu 8 Fri 9 Sat 10
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 0–1 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 0–1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Swell 2s 4s 4s 4s 3s 3s 7s 2s 2s 5s 5s 5s 5s 5s 6s 6s 4s 5s 4s 6s 5s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 2s
Wind mph 8 10 11 16 16 12 6 3 3 3 1 10 11 9 12 16 23 22 23 21 16 24 19 12 15 25 25 25 23 23 24
Tide m 2.5↑ 1.7↑ 3.2↑ 4.1↓ 3.1↓ 2.2↓ 1.6↓ 2.2↑ 4.1↑ 3.9↓ 2.2↓ 1.8↓ 1.3↑ 3.7↑ 4.5↓ 2.6↓ 2.4↓ 0.8↑ 2.9↑ 4.8↓ 3.1↓ 3.2↓ 0.7↓ 2.2↑ 4.9↑ 3.7↓ 3.9↓ 1.0↓ 1.5↑ 4.7↑ 4.2↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Black Middens faces. Arrows show where the swell and wind are heading. Tide is the height at River Tyne (North Shields) 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

Black Middens faces south-east. Swell inside the lit window reaches the beach; anything from behind the headlands scores nothing, however big the buoy says it is.

NESWfaces SESESW
SE
0.2 m at 4 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
SW
0.3 m at 2 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Black Middens works

Swell
Best from the north east.
Wind
North West is offshore.
Tide
mid to high tide.
Getting there
Head to Newcastle, then to tynemouth.. once there head for the coastguards station to check the spot.

One of the best waves on the East Coast, but seldom works and horribly polluted this isn't the best spot.. On the mouth of the river tyne, between two piers.

Tide times

  • Sun 16:26Low2.2 m
  • Sun 22:37High4.1 m
  • Mon 05:24Low1.7 m
  • Mon 11:44High4.1 m
  • Mon 18:10Low2.2 m
  • Tue 00:09High4.2 m
  • Tue 06:54Low1.4 m
  • Tue 13:09High4.3 m

River Tyne (North Shields) station, 2 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Black Middens

Members' own photos of Black Middens. Credits: James Watson.

Comments

17 May 2005 · James C Only seen it looking like the photo 5 times in ten years.... but amazing when good.
31 Jan 2005 · wibster never breaks properly anymore :(
27 Jan 2005 · desprate surf that place lucks sick man really thick

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