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Ogmore

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

Best of the week: Wednesday around 10:00, 5–7 ft and offshore.

Surf now0–1ft0.2 m at 12 s from the SW, wind sea 0.1 m from the E
Wind8mphNE · offshore · gusts 12
Tide 4.3mFalling · low 02:19 (2.6 m). Works high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
1–2 ft Swell SW 13s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Sun
1–2 ft Swell SW 7s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Mon
2–3 ft Swell W 8s Wind 2 mph ★★★★★
Tue
5–7 ft Swell W 8s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Wed
5–7 ft Swell W 10s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Thu
8–11 ft Swell W 10s Wind 20 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 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3 2–4 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 1–2 1–2 4–6 5–7 4–6 4–5 5–7 5–7 5–7 5–7 5–7 8–11 9–12 8–11 8–10 7–9
Swell 13s 12s 3s 3s 3s 7s 6s 4s 4s 4s 8s 7s 7s 8s 3s 4s 7s 8s 7s 8s 10s 10s 10s 10s 10s 11s 10s 10s 10s 10s
Wind mph 10 13 11 10 10 9 7 12 14 19 3 4 10 16 19 16 12 11 10 7 6 7 10 8 8 19 20 20 19 18
Tide m 6.3↑ 8.6↓ 5.3↓ 2.8↑ 5.6↑ 5.4↑ 8.1↑ 6.2↓ 3.2↓ 4.8↑ 4.7↑ 7.4↑ 6.8↓ 3.9↓ 4.2↑ 4.2↑ 6.6↑ 7.2↓ 4.9↓ 3.8↑ 4.0↑ 5.6↑ 7.3↑ 5.9↓ 3.8↓ 4.1↓ 4.5↑ 7.0↑ 7.0↓ 4.2↓
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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 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

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 SWSWE
SW
0.2 m at 12 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
E
0.1 m at 1 s (wind sea) · 13 % 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

  • Sat 02:19Low2.6 m
  • Sat 08:45High8.6 m
  • Sat 14:43Low2.8 m
  • Sat 21:03High8.0 m
  • Sun 02:53Low3.0 m
  • Sun 09:22High8.2 m
  • Sun 15:24Low3.2 m
  • Sun 21:42High7.6 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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