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Thorntonloch

★★★★★Small
Beach break Faces NE all tides Offshore south-west Best swell north-east

Best of the week: Friday around 11:00, 3–5 ft and cross-off.

Surf now0–1ft0.4 m at 5 s from the SE, wind sea 0.5 m from the S
Wind19mphS · offshore · gusts 29
Tide 2.0mRising · high 06:01 (4.4 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
4–5 ft Swell N 5s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Mon
2–4 ft Swell NE 6s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Tue
4–6 ft Swell E 7s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Wed
4–6 ft Swell NE 6s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Thu
4–6 ft Swell NE 4s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Fri
3–5 ft Swell NE 7s Wind 10 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 0–1 0–1 2–3 4–5 4–5 2–4 2–3 1–3 2–3 2–3 3–4 3–4 3–4 3–4 4–6 3–5 4–5 4–5 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–5 3–5 3–4 4–5 3–4 3–4 3–5 3–5 3–4
Swell 6s 7s 3s 5s 5s 6s 6s 7s 8s 9s 5s 6s 6s 6s 7s 6s 6s 6s 6s 6s 4s 4s 5s 4s 6s 6s 6s 7s 7s 7s
Wind mph 19 17 15 17 19 14 17 15 9 3 25 25 23 19 15 16 12 13 16 18 16 15 17 15 14 10 9 10 11 11
Tide m 4.4↑ 3.0↓ 2.1↑ 3.4↑ 4.4↓ 4.1↑ 3.5↓ 2.2↓ 3.0↑ 4.2↑ 3.7↑ 3.9↓ 2.6↓ 2.6↑ 3.8↑ 3.2↑ 4.0↓ 3.1↓ 2.4↑ 3.3↑ 2.6↑ 4.0↑ 3.7↓ 2.3↓ 2.7↑ 2.0↑ 3.7↑ 4.2↓ 2.5↓ 2.2↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Thorntonloch faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Dunbar 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

Thorntonloch faces north-east. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from NW 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 NESES
SE
0.4 m at 5 s (swell) · 38 % reaches the beach
S
0.5 m at 3 s (wind sea) · 10 % reaches the beach

How Thorntonloch 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
all tides.

Tide times

  • Sun 06:01High4.4 m
  • Sun 11:27Low2.0 m
  • Sun 18:00High4.4 m
  • Mon 00:03Low1.8 m
  • Mon 06:52High4.2 m
  • Mon 12:16Low2.2 m
  • Mon 18:54High4.3 m
  • Tue 01:04Low2.0 m

Dunbar station, 10 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Coastal East Lothian , Incoming Tide Between Bilsdean and Thorntonloch - geograph.org.uk - 2498588 Coastal East Lothian , Coastal Cliffs Between Bilsdean and Thorntonloch - geograph.org.uk - 2498556

Richard West, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Richard West, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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