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St Cyrus

★★★★★Fair
Faces S high tide Offshore north Best swell South East
Surf now3–5ft1.3 m at 8 s from the S, wind sea 2.1 m from the SW
Wind26mphW · cross-off · gusts 43
Tide 2.3mFalling · low 06:44 (1.0 m). Works high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
2–3 ft Swell SW 4s Wind 24 mph ★★★★★
Mon
5–7 ft Swell SE 5s Wind 22 mph ★★★★★
Tue
4–6 ft Swell SW 6s Wind 26 mph ★★★★★
Wed
1–2 ft Swell SW 3s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0–1 ft Swell SW 3s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Fri
2–4 ft Swell S 4s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Sat
1–2 ft Swell SE 4s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Sun 25 Mon 26 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30 Sat 31
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 06 09 12 15 18
Surf ft 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 4–5 6–8 6–8 5–7 4–6 3–4 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 2–3 2–4 3–4 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2
Swell 5s 4s 4s 4s 4s 3s 3s 3s 5s 7s 8s 6s 6s 5s 5s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 2s 2s 2s 2s 2s 3s 4s 4s 4s 4s 4s 4s 5s 5s
Wind mph 18 24 26 30 25 9 9 17 22 18 27 36 26 27 25 18 17 17 15 15 12 13 14 13 18 22 21 22 20 18 11 11 8 6 6
Tide m 1.1↓ 2.0↑ 4.4↑ 4.2↓ 1.5↓ 1.4↓ 1.5↑ 4.1↑ 4.7↓ 1.8↓ 1.9↓ 1.1↑ 3.6↑ 5.0↓ 2.4↓ 2.7↓ 1.0↑ 3.0↑ 5.0↑ 3.1↓ 3.6↓ 1.2↓ 2.5↑ 4.7↑ 3.8↓ 4.2↓ 1.7↓ 2.1↑ 4.2↑ 4.3↓ – – – – –
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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 SSSW
S
1.3 m at 8 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
SW
2.1 m at 5 s (wind sea) · 14 % 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 06:44Low1.0 m
  • Sun 13:25High4.8 m
  • Sun 18:59Low1.2 m
  • Mon 01:29High5.0 m
  • Mon 07:20Low0.8 m
  • Mon 13:59High5.0 m
  • Mon 19:36Low1.1 m
  • Tue 02:07High5.2 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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