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Kyle of Tongue

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

Best of the week: Monday around 07:00, 6–8 ft and offshore.

Surf now2–3ft0.8 m at 10 s from the N, wind sea 1.0 m from the SE
Wind20mphS · offshore · gusts 36
Tide 4.0mRising · high 19:39 (4.9 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
2–3 ft Swell SE 3s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Sun
3–4 ft Swell NW 14s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Mon
6–8 ft Swell NW 10s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Tue
2–3 ft Swell W 7s Wind 34 mph ★★★★★
Wed
6–8 ft Swell W 7s Wind 21 mph ★★★★★
Thu
4–6 ft Swell NW 7s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Fri
1–2 ft Swell W 9s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Sat 24 Sun 25 Mon 26 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30
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 2–3 3–4 3–4 11–15 13–17 12–16 7–10 5–7 4–6 3–5 2–4 0–1 0–1 0 0–1 2–3 5–8 6–8 6–8 5–7 5–7 4–6 3–5 3–4 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2
Swell 10s 14s 5s 10s 12s 11s 10s 9s 9s 9s 8s 3s 4s 4s 5s 7s 7s 10s 9s 6s 9s 7s 7s 7s 7s 6s 8s 8s 9s 9s 9s
Wind mph 13 14 26 33 29 30 9 8 9 14 22 21 28 41 39 34 23 20 16 21 18 13 9 11 13 14 15 12 9 7 4
Tide m 4.4↑ 4.5↑ 4.1↓ 1.6↓ 2.1↑ 4.8↑ 4.3↑ 4.6↓ 1.9↓ 1.5↑ 4.4↑ 3.8↑ 5.0↓ 2.4↓ 1.0↑ 3.7↑ 3.1↑ 5.1↓ 3.1↓ 1.0↓ 2.8↑ 2.5↑ 4.9↑ 3.8↓ 1.3↓ 2.0↑ – – – – –
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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 NNSE
N
0.8 m at 10 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
SE
1.0 m at 3 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 19:39High4.9 m
  • Sun 01:57Low0.9 m
  • Sun 07:11High4.9 m
  • Sun 13:09Low1.3 m
  • Sun 19:16High5.1 m
  • Mon 01:34Low0.8 m
  • Mon 07:44High5.0 m
  • Mon 13:48Low1.1 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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