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Center Breaks

★★★★★Small
Reef break Faces E mid to high tide Offshore West Best swell North East
Surf now0–1ft0.3 m at 4 s from the SE, wind sea 0.5 m from the SW
Wind9mphSW · cross-off · gusts 16
Tide 2.3mRising · high 21:51 (3.9 m). Works mid to high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
0–1 ft Swell SW 3s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Mon
0–1 ft Swell SW 2s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Tue
0 ft Swell NW 2s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0 ft Swell N 5s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Thu
1–2 ft Swell NE 6s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Fri
1–2 ft Swell NE 7s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Sat
0–1 ft Swell N 8s Wind 16 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 0–1 0–1 0–1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1
Swell 3s 2s 5s 3s 3s 4s 2s 8s 6s 6s 6s 5s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 4s 5s 4s 6s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 8s 7s 7s 3s 3s
Wind mph 12 7 12 17 17 13 7 5 7 5 4 7 9 11 11 12 14 15 17 15 8 16 13 7 9 16 16 17 20 19 15
Tide m 2.6↑ 1.9↑ 3.5↑ 3.8↓ 2.5↓ 2.0↑ 1.3↑ 2.6↑ 4.1↑ 3.2↓ 1.7↓ 1.2↓ 1.8↑ 4.1↑ 3.9↓ 1.8↓ 1.5↓ 1.1↑ 3.7↑ 4.5↓ 2.2↓ 2.1↓ 0.7↑ 3.1↑ 4.8↓ 2.7↓ 2.8↓ 0.6↓ 2.4↑ 4.8↑ 3.3↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Center Breaks faces. Arrows show where the swell and wind are heading. Tide is the height at North Sunderland (Northumberland) 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

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

NESWfaces ESESW
SE
0.3 m at 4 s (swell) · 42 % reaches the beach
SW
0.5 m at 3 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Center Breaks works

Swell
Best from the north east.
Wind
West is offshore.
Tide
mid to high tide.
Getting there
Turn off the A1 and follow signs for seahouses. Find small village of Beadnell (just south) and then find harbour. Stand on harbour, look approx south across middle of bay and you will see the break.

A reef break half a mile out in the middle of Beadnell bay which only really works when the waves are a REAL 5 ft or more. If swell is 8-10 ft and clean out of the north, this break will be wide enough to fit a bus inside of each tube for about three hours either side of high water. not for beginners, and due to distance from shore and large quantities of rocks to hit your head off, rather unsafe. World class when good. (really!)

Tide times

  • Sun 21:51High3.9 m
  • Mon 04:24Low1.5 m
  • Mon 10:58High3.9 m
  • Mon 17:09Low1.9 m
  • Mon 23:22High4.0 m
  • Tue 05:53Low1.3 m
  • Tue 12:22High4.1 m
  • Tue 18:25Low1.7 m

North Sunderland (Northumberland) station, 4 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

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