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Primrose Valley

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

Best of the week: Monday around 07:00, 2–4 ft and offshore.

Surf now2–3ft1.5 m at 9 s from the N, wind sea 0.1 m from the W
Wind10mphW · offshore · gusts 17
Tide 1.8mFalling · low 00:48 (1.7 m). Works high tide.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
1–2 ft Swell N 8s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Sun
2–3 ft Swell NE 13s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Mon
2–4 ft Swell N 8s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Tue
2–3 ft Swell N 8s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Wed
1–3 ft Swell N 8s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Thu
4–5 ft Swell N 9s Wind 10 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 0–1 1–2 1–2 2–3 2–3 2–4 2–3 2–3 1–2 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–3 2–3 3–5 4–5 4–6 4–6
Swell 8s 8s 8s 8s 7s 6s 7s 10s 12s 13s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 8s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s
Wind mph 8 11 14 12 12 11 14 12 5 11 12 13 17 9 3 18 19 15 15 13 11 11 13 10 11 5 9 11 12 11
Tide m 5.0↑ 4.4↓ 2.3↓ 3.0↑ 5.1↑ 4.5↑ 4.8↓ 2.9↓ 2.8↑ 4.7↑ 4.0↑ 4.9↓ 3.5↓ 2.8↑ 4.2↑ 3.4↑ 4.8↑ 4.2↓ 3.0↓ 3.7↑ 2.8↑ 4.4↑ 4.6↓ 3.3↓ 3.2↑ 2.3↑ 3.8↑ 4.9↓ 3.8↓ 2.8↑
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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 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

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 ENW
N
1.5 m at 9 s (swell) · 50 % reaches the beach
W
0.1 m at 1 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 00:48Low1.7 m
  • Sat 06:58High5.2 m
  • Sat 12:55Low2.2 m
  • Sat 19:02High5.3 m
  • Sun 01:26Low1.9 m
  • Sun 07:43High5.1 m
  • Sun 13:35Low2.5 m
  • Sun 19:48High5.2 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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