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Torresdale

★★★★★Good
River mouth Faces N high tide Offshore South Best swell north

Best of the week: Monday around 18:00, 4–6 ft and offshore.

Surf now3–4ft1.1 m at 10 s from the NW, wind sea 1.8 m from the SE
Wind22mphSE · offshore · gusts 38
Tide 4.0mRising · high 19:39 (4.9 m). Works high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
3–5 ft Swell N 9s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Sun
4–6 ft Swell W 5s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Mon
4–6 ft Swell NW 9s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Tue
2–3 ft Swell W 8s Wind 25 mph ★★★★★
Wed
6–8 ft Swell W 7s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Thu
3–4 ft Swell NW 7s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Fri
1–2 ft Swell W 8s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Sat 24 Sun 25 Mon 26 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30
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 3–5 4–6 3–5 19–25 26–35 23–30 9–12 7–10 6–8 5–7 4–6 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 2–3 6–9 7–9 7–9 5–7 4–6 3–5 3–4 2–4 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2
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Wind mph 12 15 35 38 33 31 11 8 9 11 20 18 26 32 30 26 15 13 13 15 12 10 8 14 14 15 11 9 7 6 5
Tide m 4.4↑ 4.5↑ 4.1↓ 1.6↓ 2.1↑ 4.8↑ 4.3↑ 4.6↓ 1.9↓ 1.5↑ 4.4↑ 3.8↑ 5.0↓ 2.4↓ 1.0↑ 3.7↑ 3.1↑ 5.1↓ 3.1↓ 1.0↓ 2.8↑ 2.5↑ 4.9↑ 3.8↓ 1.3↓ 2.0↑ – – – – –
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Torresdale faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Portnancon 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

Torresdale faces north. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from NW round to NE; 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 NNWSE
NW
1.1 m at 10 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
SE
1.8 m at 4 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Torresdale works

Swell
Best from the north.
Wind
Offshore is from the south; anything with north in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
high tide.
Getting there
Along the North coast road for about 25 miles past bettyhill

Long sandy beache with river mouths breaks at each end..

Tide times

  • Sat 19:39High4.9 m
  • Sun 01:57Low0.9 m
  • Sun 07:11High4.9 m
  • Sun 13:09Low1.3 m
  • Sun 19:16High5.1 m
  • Mon 01:34Low0.8 m
  • Mon 07:44High5.0 m
  • Mon 13:48Low1.1 m

Portnancon station, 27 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Nice March Evening on the North Shore!! Lovely Sunset on a Brisk March Evening! Head an 1/2 Sets with a beautiful sunset! A hairy place to jump... especially when there's double head sets out there!! A shot up the Valley

Members' own photos of Torresdale. Credits: Sie Baker.

Comments

1 Jan 2010 · m3d8 The name speaks volumes!
1 Jan 2010 · silvabak Seldom surfed & under-rated: it's a closeout! -Honest!!
27 Jun 2005 · davey turn left at the shop in bettyhill, then left again at the 't' junction, follow the road to the end.My 'local' break. When the rights are working can be a bitch to get back out. spend most of your session paddling, or try the gorgeous barreling long lefts at the far west end. Takes nw/n/ne swells. We've regularly seen double and triple overhead days here, with an absolute monster, mid beach, when its huge, pwc needed there.

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