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Thorntonloch

★★★★★Fair
Beach break Faces NE all tides Offshore south-west Best swell north-east
Surf now1–2ft0.7 m at 8 s from the SE, wind sea 2.0 m from the W
Wind22mphSW · offshore · gusts 34
Tide 5.1mFalling · low 07:25 (0.9 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
4–5 ft Swell W 6s Wind 40 mph ★★★★★
Mon
1–2 ft Swell SE 6s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Tue
1–2 ft Swell SE 8s Wind 26 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0–1 ft Swell W 2s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0–1 ft Swell W 2s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Fri
0–1 ft Swell SE 2s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★
Sun 25 Mon 26 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30
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 1–2 3–4 4–5 4–5 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1
Swell 5s 6s 6s 6s 5s 7s 8s 3s 5s 6s 8s 4s 4s 4s 4s 2s 2s 2s 3s 3s 2s 2s 2s 5s 5s 2s 2s 3s 3s 3s
Wind mph 39 39 40 34 30 12 10 13 16 10 26 30 33 31 26 14 18 17 17 16 12 15 15 14 13 19 13 8 8 10
Tide m 1.4↓ 1.5↑ 4.4↑ 4.7↓ 1.8↓ 1.9↓ 1.0↑ 3.9↑ 5.1↓ 2.3↓ 2.6↓ 0.8↑ 3.3↑ 5.3↓ 3.0↓ 3.4↓ 0.8↓ 2.6↑ 5.2↑ 3.8↓ 4.2↓ 1.3↓ 2.0↑ 4.8↑ 4.4↓ 4.8↓ 2.0↓ 1.7↑ 4.1↑ 4.8↓
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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 NESEW
SE
0.7 m at 8 s (swell) · 36 % reaches the beach
W
2.0 m at 4 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 01:15High5.1 m
  • Sun 07:25Low0.9 m
  • Sun 13:46High5.2 m
  • Sun 19:40Low1.0 m
  • Mon 01:51High5.3 m
  • Mon 08:01Low0.8 m
  • Mon 14:20High5.3 m
  • Mon 20:19Low0.8 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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