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St Cyrus

★★★★★Small
Faces S high tide Offshore north Best swell South East

Best of the week: today around 07:00, 3–4 ft and offshore.

Surf now3–5ft1.2 m at 6 s from the SE, wind sea 1.0 m from the S
Wind15mphSW · cross-on · gusts 24
Tide 2.3mRising · high 05:30 (4.0 m). Works high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
3–4 ft Swell SE 6s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Mon
0–1 ft Swell E 7s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Tue
6–8 ft Swell SE 6s Wind 24 mph ★★★★★
Wed
3–4 ft Swell E 5s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Thu
2–3 ft Swell E 5s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Fri
0–1 ft Swell NE 6s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Sun 15 Mon 16 Tue 17 Wed 18 Thu 19 Fri 20
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 3–4 3–4 2–3 2–3 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 5–7 6–8 5–8 5–7 5–7 4–6 4–6 3–5 4–5 3–4 2–3 1–2 1–2 0–1 1–2 0–1 0 0 0 0
Swell 6s 6s 7s 6s 6s 7s 7s 7s 8s 8s 5s 6s 6s 5s 5s 6s 6s 5s 5s 5s 5s 5s 5s 5s 5s 6s 7s 7s 7s 7s
Wind mph 5 15 15 15 15 9 11 13 11 13 24 24 23 20 15 14 16 15 14 12 13 15 13 13 13 9 6 7 7 7
Tide m 4.0↓ 2.6↓ 2.3↑ 3.6↑ 4.1↓ 3.8↑ 3.1↓ 2.3↑ 3.2↑ 4.0↑ 3.5↑ 3.5↓ 2.5↓ 2.8↑ 3.8↑ 3.2↑ 3.7↓ 2.8↓ 2.5↑ 3.4↑ 2.8↑ 3.8↑ 3.3↓ 2.3↓ 3.0↑ 2.3↑ 3.7↑ 3.8↓ 2.3↓ 2.5↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way St Cyrus faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Montrose 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

St Cyrus faces south. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from E round to SW; 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 SSES
SE
1.2 m at 6 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
S
1.0 m at 4 s (wind sea) · 66 % reaches the beach

How St Cyrus works

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

Tide times

  • Sun 05:30High4.0 m
  • Sun 10:50Low2.1 m
  • Sun 17:24High4.2 m
  • Sun 23:30Low1.9 m
  • Mon 06:24High3.8 m
  • Mon 11:41Low2.3 m
  • Mon 18:18High4.0 m
  • Tue 00:30Low2.0 m

Montrose station, 8 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Looking down on the Sands of St Cyrus - geograph.org.uk - 3633194 St Cyrus sands - geograph.org.uk - 6983818

Stanley Howe, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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