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Super Sucks

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

Best of the week: Sunday around 15:00, 3–5 ft and offshore.

Surf now1–2ft1.2 m at 8 s from the SE, wind sea 1.3 m from the SW
Wind19mphSW · offshore · gusts 35
Tide 2.3mRising · high 02:56 (5.7 m). Works high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
1–2 ft Swell SW 4s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★
Sun
3–5 ft Swell NW 6s Wind 21 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–4 ft Swell S 4s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Tue
1–2 ft Swell S 4s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0 ft Swell SW 3s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0–1 ft Swell NW 3s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Fri
1–2 ft Swell N 6s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Sat 24 Sun 25 Mon 26 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30
Time 23 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 0–1 0 0 3–5 2–3 3–5 3–4 3–4 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 1–2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2
Swell 4s 4s 5s 5s 6s 9s 10s 10s 10s 5s 4s 4s 7s 3s 4s 3s 3s 3s 2s 2s 2s 3s 3s 3s 6s 6s 6s 6s 5s 7s 6s
Wind mph 19 27 27 26 21 19 9 9 11 13 13 20 20 27 23 17 17 16 17 14 11 10 11 11 13 11 16 16 15 14 13
Tide m 1.9↑ 3.6↓ 1.2↓ 3.1↑ 5.7↑ 4.2↓ 4.3↓ 1.3↓ 2.3↑ 5.6↑ 4.8↓ 5.1↓ 1.7↓ 1.7↑ 5.1↑ 5.4↓ 5.6↓ 2.4↓ 1.3↑ 4.4↑ 5.7↓ 5.8↓ 3.3↓ 1.3↑ 3.6↑ 5.7↑ 5.6↑ 4.2↓ 1.8↓ 2.9↑ 5.3↑
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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 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

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 NESESW
SE
1.2 m at 8 s (swell) · 50 % reaches the beach
SW
1.3 m at 4 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

  • Sun 02:56High5.7 m
  • Sun 09:21Low1.2 m
  • Sun 15:23High5.8 m
  • Sun 21:40Low1.4 m
  • Mon 03:33High5.9 m
  • Mon 09:57Low1.0 m
  • Mon 15:59High5.9 m
  • Mon 22:17Low1.3 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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