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Newgale

★★★★★Small
Faces SW mid to high tide Offshore East Best swell west

Best of the week: Wednesday around 09:00, 6–8 ft and offshore.

Surf now1–2ft0.5 m at 12 s from the SW
Wind9mphE · cross-off · gusts 15
Tide 3.0mFalling · low 02:58 (1.9 m). Works mid to high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
2–3 ft Swell SW 10s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Sun
3–4 ft Swell SW 8s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Mon
2–4 ft Swell W 8s Wind 3 mph ★★★★★
Tue
6–8 ft Swell SW 9s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Wed
6–8 ft Swell SW 9s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Thu
10–13 ft Swell SW 10s Wind 18 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 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–4 2–4 3–4 3–4 3–4 2–4 2–3 3–4 2–4 2–3 2–3 1–2 2–3 5–6 4–6 4–6 6–8 6–9 6–8 6–8 6–8 6–8 10–14 10–13 9–12 8–11 7–9
Swell 10s 10s 10s 8s 8s 8s 8s 4s 7s 5s 8s 8s 8s 8s 3s 6s 7s 7s 8s 8s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 10s 10s 10s 9s 9s
Wind mph 9 13 14 17 14 9 15 15 17 17 4 3 13 16 22 15 11 10 9 7 7 8 10 7 7 17 18 18 17 15
Tide m 3.5↑ 4.8↓ 3.4↓ 2.0↓ 3.1↑ 3.1↑ 4.6↑ 3.8↓ 2.4↓ 2.8↑ 2.8↑ 4.2↑ 4.0↓ 2.8↓ 2.6↑ 2.8↑ 3.8↑ 4.1↓ 3.2↓ 2.6↑ 2.8↓ 3.3↑ 4.1↑ 3.6↓ 2.7↓ 2.8↓ 2.9↑ 4.0↑ 4.1↓ 2.9↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Newgale faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Solva 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

Newgale faces south-west. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from S round to W; the brighter a wedge, the deeper the water in that direction and the more of the swell gets in. Anything from behind the headlands scores nothing, however big the buoy says it is.

NESWfaces SWSW
SW
0.5 m at 12 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach

How Newgale works

Swell
Best from the west.
Wind
Offshore is from the east; anything with south-west in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
mid to high tide.
Getting there
Head towards St Davids from Haverfordwest. Stop at Newgale

Picks up plenty of swell, usually about 1ft less than Fresh West. Closes out a lot on low tide

Tide times

  • Sat 02:58Low1.9 m
  • Sat 08:46High4.8 m
  • Sat 15:20Low2.0 m
  • Sat 21:04High4.5 m
  • Sun 03:30Low2.1 m
  • Sun 09:25High4.6 m
  • Sun 15:58Low2.2 m
  • Sun 21:45High4.3 m

Solva station, 5 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Newgale Sands beach, looking south - geograph.org.uk - 7194313 Shingle beach at Newgale Sands - geograph.org.uk - 2927326

Rob Purvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Roger Davies, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Comments

29 Dec 2004 · atom Classics close out sessions can be had. White water all the way

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