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Super Sucks

★★★★★Good
Beach break Faces NE high tide Offshore South West Best swell North East

Best of the week: Monday around 07:00, 5–7 ft and offshore.

Surf now4–6ft1.5 m at 8 s from the N, wind sea 0.2 m from the SW
Wind10mphSW · offshore · gusts 17
Tide 1.9mFalling · low 00:42 (1.8 m). Works high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
2–4 ft Swell N 8s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Sun
3–4 ft Swell NE 13s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Mon
5–7 ft Swell N 8s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Tue
4–6 ft Swell N 8s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Wed
4–6 ft Swell N 8s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Thu
5–7 ft Swell N 9s Wind 9 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 2–4 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 1–2 2–3 2–3 3–4 5–8 4–6 4–5 2–4 3–5 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–5 4–5 4–5 4–5 4–5 4–6 5–7 5–7 5–7 5–7 5–7
Swell 8s 8s 8s 7s 7s 6s 7s 9s 11s 13s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 8s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s
Wind mph 7 7 11 9 9 11 11 9 7 9 11 12 14 8 3 16 15 12 13 11 10 10 13 9 10 5 5 9 10 9
Tide m 4.7↑ 4.1↓ 2.3↓ 3.0↑ 5.0↑ 4.3↑ 4.4↓ 2.7↓ 2.8↑ 4.5↑ 3.8↑ 4.5↓ 3.2↓ 2.7↑ 4.1↑ 3.3↑ 4.4↑ 3.7↓ 2.8↓ 3.5↑ 2.8↑ 4.2↑ 4.2↓ 3.1↓ 3.0↑ 2.4↑ 3.7↑ 4.6↓ 3.5↓ 2.7↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Super Sucks faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Scarborough 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

Super Sucks faces north-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 NENSW
N
1.5 m at 8 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
SW
0.2 m at 2 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Super Sucks works

Swell
Best from the north east.
Wind
Offshore is from the south west; anything with north-east in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
high tide.
Getting there
Park at North Bay

At north bay Nearing High tide when the sea is up against the wall near the ramp from the beach is break that produces hollow, heavy, and short waves... not for the feignt hearted

Tide times

  • Sat 00:42Low1.8 m
  • Sat 06:50High4.9 m
  • Sat 12:45Low2.1 m
  • Sat 18:58High5.1 m
  • Sun 01:20Low2.0 m
  • Sun 07:33High4.7 m
  • Sun 13:24Low2.4 m
  • Sun 19:41High5.0 m

Scarborough station, 2 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Scarborough - North Sands - geograph.org.uk - 7675618 North Bay and 'The Sands' development - geograph.org.uk - 1843171

Colin Park, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Alan Walker, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Comments

13 May 2005 · matty wobbly brown close out named after a gay porn film hence its popularity with the croft brothers.and the photo above is so old it should be in the rotunda museum.
14 Feb 2005 · southely person immense wave does it break often
24 Dec 2004 · d Rare wave- oozes quality,. Within 30 mins of it working 15 of the local crew will be on it. You won't catch it if you are not from Scarborough.

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