Home / North Scotland / the Kyle of tounge

Kyle of Tongue

★★★★★Flat
Faces E all tides Offshore North West Best swell North West
Surf now0ft0.9 m at 11 s from the NW, wind sea 0.4 m from the W
Wind17mphSW · offshore · gusts 31
Tide 3.9mFalling · low 21:56 (1.9 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
0 ft Swell NW 11s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Mon
0 ft Swell NW 11s Wind 22 mph ★★★★★
Tue
0 ft Swell NW 9s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0 ft Swell N 9s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0 ft Swell NW 7s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Fri
0 ft Swell N 7s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Sat
0 ft Swell W 5s Wind 15 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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Swell 11s 11s 11s 10s 11s 12s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 7s 8s 8s 8s 7s 6s 6s 6s 6s 7s 7s 4s 5s 5s 5s 6s 7s 7s 7s
Wind mph 19 22 23 26 22 15 4 7 12 13 13 12 13 13 14 13 15 14 9 6 6 18 14 18 19 15 15 16 18 19 19
Tide m 3.3↓ 3.9↓ 2.8↓ 2.8↑ 4.0↑ 4.0↓ 4.3↓ 3.2↓ 2.3↑ 3.5↑ 4.5↓ 4.4↑ 3.7↓ 2.1↓ 2.9↑ 4.7↑ 4.3↑ 4.3↓ 2.1↓ 2.3↑ 4.6↑ 3.9↑ 4.7↓ 2.3↓ 1.7↑ 4.2↑ 3.4↑ 4.9↓ 2.7↓ 1.3↑ 3.6↑
Rating ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★

Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Kyle of Tongue faces. Arrows show where the swell and wind are heading. Tide is the height at Portnancon 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 Wednesday 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

Kyle of Tongue 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 ENWW
NW
0.9 m at 11 s (swell) · blocked, 0 %
W
0.4 m at 3 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Kyle of Tongue works

Swell
Best from the north west.
Wind
North West is offshore.
Tide
all tides.
Getting there
Drive on the a838 onto the kyle.. head for Talmine or Melness when you get there.

Massive rides in Big W/NW swells and winds.. eastly facing break in a glacial inlet.

Tide times

  • Sun 21:56Low1.9 m
  • Mon 04:23High4.1 m
  • Mon 10:31Low2.6 m
  • Mon 16:42High4.3 m
  • Mon 23:21Low1.6 m
  • Tue 05:52High4.3 m
  • Tue 11:48Low2.3 m
  • Tue 17:55High4.5 m

Portnancon station, 18 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Comments

Nothing said about Kyle of Tongue yet. Surfed it? Say what it's like.

Log in or join to comment.

Nearby