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Thorntonloch

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

Best of the week: Friday around 10:00, 3–4 ft and offshore.

Surf now0ft0.3 m at 4 s from the W, wind sea 0.4 m from the SW
Wind20mphSW · offshore · gusts 31
Tide 3.2mRising · high 21:29 (4.1 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
0 ft Swell SW 2s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Mon
0 ft Swell W 3s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Tue
0–1 ft Swell W 2s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0–1 ft Swell W 3s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Thu
3–5 ft Swell NE 6s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Fri
3–4 ft Swell NE 7s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Sat
1–2 ft Swell W 3s Wind 21 mph ★★★★★
Sun 4 Mon 5 Tue 6 Wed 7 Thu 8 Fri 9 Sat 10
Time 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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 2–4 3–5 3–5 3–4 3–4 2–4 2–4 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2
Swell 2s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 2s 2s 2s 2s 4s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 4s 4s 5s 5s 6s 7s 7s 7s 7s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s
Wind mph 20 15 15 17 22 16 9 7 9 9 6 11 13 14 15 16 17 17 15 11 5 17 8 9 18 20 21 22 23 21 18
Tide m 3.1↑ 2.3↑ 3.8↑ 4.0↓ 2.7↓ 2.5↑ 1.6↑ 3.0↑ 4.4↑ 3.3↓ 2.0↓ 1.4↓ 2.1↑ 4.4↑ 4.1↓ 2.0↓ 1.6↓ 1.3↑ 4.0↑ 4.7↓ 2.2↓ 2.2↓ 0.8↑ 3.5↑ 5.1↓ 2.7↓ 2.9↓ 0.7↑ 2.8↑ 5.2↑ 3.2↓
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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 Thursday 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. Swell inside the lit window reaches the beach; anything from behind the headlands scores nothing, however big the buoy says it is.

NESWfaces NEWSW
W
0.3 m at 4 s (swell) · blocked, 0 %
SW
0.4 m at 2 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

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 21:29High4.1 m
  • Mon 04:15Low1.9 m
  • Mon 10:37High4.2 m
  • Mon 16:58Low2.3 m
  • Mon 23:09High4.2 m
  • Tue 05:54Low1.6 m
  • Tue 12:09High4.4 m
  • Tue 18:19Low2.0 m

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

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