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Ogmore

★★★★★Small
Faces SW high tide Offshore North Best swell south-west

Best of the week: Wednesday around 18:00, 5–6 ft and cross-on.

Surf now14–19ftwind sea 5.2 m from the SW
Wind30mphW · cross-on · gusts 50
Tide 6.3mFalling · low 00:01 (1.4 m). Works high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
14–19 ft Swell SW 9s Wind 30 mph ★★★★★
Sun
5–7 ft Swell W 7s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–4 ft Swell W 8s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Tue
7–10 ft Swell SW 7s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★
Wed
5–6 ft Swell W 8s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Thu
3–4 ft Swell W 8s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Fri
2–3 ft Swell W 7s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Sat 24 Sun 25 Mon 26 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30
Time 20 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 14–19 12–16 10–14 8–11 6–8 5–7 3–4 3–4 5–7 5–7 5–7 8–11 7–10 6–9 7–9 7–9 6–8 6–8 5–7 5–6 5–6 3–4 3–4 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3
Swell 9s 9s 8s 8s 7s 7s 8s 8s 6s 5s 9s 7s 7s 6s 7s 7s 6s 6s 6s 5s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 7s 7s 8s 8s 8s
Wind mph 30 30 27 26 20 20 12 17 27 20 16 21 19 22 19 17 18 15 15 14 7 5 8 12 14 16 8 8 9 9 11
Tide m 7.4↓ 9.3↓ 4.0↓ 1.6↑ 6.9↑ 9.9↓ 10.0↓ 5.4↓ 1.1↑ 5.4↑ 10.2↑ 10.0↑ 7.0↓ 1.1↓ 3.9↑ 9.8↑ 9.3↑ 8.4↓ 2.0↓ 2.6↑ 8.7↑ 8.1↑ 9.4↓ 3.4↓ 1.8↑ 7.1↑ 6.5↑ 9.5↓ 5.1↓ 1.8↑ 5.5↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Ogmore faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Porthcawl 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

Ogmore faces south-west. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from SE 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
5.2 m at 9 s (wind sea) · 100 % reaches the beach

How Ogmore works

Swell
Best from the south-west.
Wind
Offshore is from the north; anything with south-west in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
high tide.
Getting there
Park in the car park, walk down to the river, paddle across to the beach.

Nice break with sand banks that help on the push. Good clean waves, with the occasional barrel!!

Tide times

  • Sun 00:01Low1.4 m
  • Sun 05:16High9.5 m
  • Sun 11:18Low1.4 m
  • Sun 17:35High10.0 m
  • Sun 23:39Low1.0 m
  • Mon 05:55High10.0 m
  • Mon 11:56Low1.1 m
  • Mon 18:15High10.3 m

Porthcawl station, 3 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

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Comments

23 Feb 2012 · eightlegged Nice place Ogmore
24 Apr 2008 · Sie Baker One of my favorite photographs ive taken!

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