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Kyle of Tongue

★★★★★Firing
Faces N all tides Offshore south Best swell North West

Best of the week: Thursday around 11:00, 5–8 ft and offshore.

Surf now3–4ft1.2 m at 8 s from the NW, wind sea 0.4 m from the W
Wind10mphSW · offshore · gusts 19
Tide 3.8mFalling · low 04:21 (2.1 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
4–5 ft Swell NW 10s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Sun
8–11 ft Swell N 12s Wind 6 mph ★★★★★
Mon
5–7 ft Swell N 9s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Tue
6–8 ft Swell N 7s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Wed
6–8 ft Swell N 9s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Thu
5–8 ft Swell N 9s Wind 5 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 3–4 3–4 3–4 3–4 3–5 11–15 11–15 9–12 9–12 8–11 9–13 9–12 8–10 6–8 5–7 7–9 6–9 6–8 5–7 5–7 5–7 5–7 5–7 5–8 6–8 6–8 6–8 5–7 5–7 5–7
Swell 9s 9s 10s 9s 10s 12s 13s 13s 13s 12s 10s 10s 10s 10s 9s 8s 8s 7s 7s 7s 7s 8s 8s 9s 9s 10s 9s 9s 9s 9s
Wind mph 11 14 13 8 10 15 5 11 4 6 18 20 18 13 11 11 10 10 10 9 17 14 13 12 12 8 8 4 4 4
Tide m 2.6↑ 4.4↑ 4.1↓ 2.4↓ 2.0↑ 2.5↑ 3.9↑ 4.3↓ 2.8↓ 2.0↑ 2.5↑ 3.5↑ 4.3↓ 3.3↓ 2.2↓ 2.7↓ 3.1↑ 4.0↑ 3.8↓ 2.5↓ 3.0↓ 2.8↑ 3.7↑ 4.1↓ 2.9↓ 3.4↓ 2.6↓ 3.2↑ 4.2↑ 3.5↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Kyle of Tongue faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. 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 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

Kyle of Tongue faces north. Swell inside the lit window reaches the beach; anything from behind the headlands scores nothing, however big the buoy says it is.

NESWfaces NNWW
NW
1.2 m at 8 s (swell) · 98 % reaches the beach
W
0.4 m at 2 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Kyle of Tongue works

Swell
Best from the north west.
Wind
Offshore is from the south; anything with north in it is onshore and messes it up.
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

  • Sat 04:21Low2.1 m
  • Sat 10:09High4.6 m
  • Sat 16:54Low1.9 m
  • Sat 22:52High4.1 m
  • Sun 04:57Low2.3 m
  • Sun 10:53High4.4 m
  • Sun 17:40Low2.0 m
  • Sun 23:49High4.0 m

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

Photos

In the gallery
Tongue Bay - 1978 - geograph.org.uk - 2963182 Coldbackie beach - Kyle of Tongue - geograph.org.uk - 3614937

Helmut Zozmann, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. AlastairG, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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