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Skipsea sands

★★★★★Fair
Faces E low to mid tide Offshore South West Best swell North

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

Surf now4–6ft0.1 m at 7 s from the E, wind sea 2.4 m from the SE
Wind28mphS · cross-off · gusts 47
Tide 4.5mFalling · low 22:21 (1.6 m). Works low to mid tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
4–6 ft Swell SE 5s Wind 28 mph ★★★★★
Sun
1–2 ft Swell W 3s Wind 25 mph ★★★★★
Mon
4–5 ft Swell SE 5s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Tue
2–4 ft Swell S 3s Wind 23 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0 ft Swell SW 2s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0 ft Swell NW 4s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Fri
0–1 ft Swell N 4s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Sat 24 Sun 25 Mon 26 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30
Time 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 06 09 12 15 18
Surf ft 4–6 0–1 0 0–1 0–1 1–2 2–3 1–2 2–3 4–5 2–4 3–4 2–3 1–2 1–2 0–1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1
Swell 5s 4s 3s 3s 3s 3s 11s 10s 3s 5s 7s 4s 7s 3s 3s 3s 2s 2s 2s 2s 2s 4s 4s 4s 5s 5s 5s 4s 4s 4s 4s
Wind mph 28 34 34 32 26 25 10 11 14 15 18 24 24 28 23 18 17 17 19 13 9 9 10 12 12 13 15 15 15 14 12
Tide m 4.9↓ 4.0↓ 1.2↓ 2.5↑ 5.7↑ 4.6↓ 4.8↓ 1.4↓ 1.8↑ 5.4↑ 5.3↓ 5.6↓ 2.0↓ 1.2↑ 4.8↑ 5.8↓ 6.1↓ 2.8↓ 1.0↑ 4.0↑ 6.0↓ 6.1↓ 3.8↓ 1.2↓ 3.1↑ 5.9↑ 5.7↑ 4.6↓ 1.8↓ 2.5↑ 5.3↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Skipsea sands faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Bridlington 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

Skipsea sands faces east. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from N round to S; 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 EESE
E
0.1 m at 7 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
SE
2.4 m at 5 s (wind sea) · 80 % reaches the beach

How Skipsea sands works

Swell
Best from the north.
Wind
Offshore is from the south west; anything with east in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
low to mid tide.
Getting there
go to the caravan parc skipsea

spilt peak with good swell or a good left hander

Tide times

  • Sat 22:21Low1.6 m
  • Sun 03:15High5.9 m
  • Sun 09:43Low1.0 m
  • Sun 15:48High5.9 m
  • Sun 21:59Low1.3 m
  • Mon 03:51High6.1 m
  • Mon 10:20Low0.9 m
  • Mon 16:23High6.0 m

Bridlington station, 12 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Skipsea Sands - geograph.org.uk - 2612964 Skipsea Cliff and sands looking south - geograph.org.uk - 2612974

JThomas, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. JThomas, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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