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Primrose Valley

★★★★★Small
Beach break Faces E high tide Offshore West Best swell North East

Best of the week: Monday around 06:00, 3–4 ft and cross-off.

Surf now1–2ft1.3 m at 7 s from the SE, wind sea 0.9 m from the SW
Wind18mphW · offshore · gusts 31
Tide 1.7mFalling · low 22:08 (1.5 m). Works high tide.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
1–2 ft Swell SE 7s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Sun
1–2 ft Swell N 9s Wind 24 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–4 ft Swell N 11s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Tue
1–2 ft Swell W 3s Wind 22 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0 ft Swell SW 3s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0–1 ft Swell N 6s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Fri
0–1 ft Swell N 4s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Sat 24 Sun 25 Mon 26 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30
Time 21 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 0 0 0–1 1–2 1–2 3–4 3–4 2–3 2–3 2–4 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1
Swell 7s 4s 4s 5s 5s 9s 11s 11s 10s 4s 7s 7s 7s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 2s 3s 4s 4s 3s 6s 6s 5s 5s 5s 5s 4s
Wind mph 18 34 33 35 28 21 12 11 15 21 17 23 23 28 22 17 17 17 19 14 10 10 10 12 13 13 17 17 16 14 13
Tide m 1.9↓ 3.6↓ 1.0↓ 2.6↑ 5.6↑ 4.2↓ 4.4↓ 1.1↓ 1.8↑ 5.3↑ 4.9↓ 5.1↓ 1.6↓ 1.2↑ 4.8↑ 5.4↓ 5.6↓ 2.4↓ 0.9↑ 4.0↑ 5.7↓ 5.8↓ 3.4↓ 1.1↓ 3.2↑ 5.7↑ 5.6↑ 4.4↓ 1.7↓ 2.5↑ 5.3↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Primrose Valley faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Filey Bay 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

Primrose Valley faces east. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from N round to SE; 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 ESESW
SE
1.3 m at 7 s (swell) · 50 % reaches the beach
SW
0.9 m at 3 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Primrose Valley works

Swell
Best from the north east.
Wind
Offshore is from the west; anything with east in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
high tide.

Beach break that works well on a northely swell

Tide times

  • Sat 22:08Low1.5 m
  • Sun 03:01High5.7 m
  • Sun 09:31Low0.9 m
  • Sun 15:35High5.7 m
  • Sun 21:47Low1.2 m
  • Mon 03:38High5.8 m
  • Mon 10:09Low0.7 m
  • Mon 16:11High5.8 m

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

Photos

In the gallery
Hunmanby Sands, Filey Bay - geograph.org.uk - 5123690 Hunmanby Sands, Filey Bay - geograph.org.uk - 5123672

PAUL FARMER, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. PAUL FARMER, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Comments

30 Apr 2005 · JB lol theres loads, not

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