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Torresdale

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

Best of the week: Wednesday around 06:00, 4–6 ft and offshore.

Surf now2–3ft1.6 m at 10 s from the NW, wind sea 0.9 m from the W
Wind13mphSW · cross-off · gusts 23
Tide 3.9mFalling · low 21:56 (1.9 m). Works high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
2–4 ft Swell NW 10s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Mon
2–4 ft Swell NW 10s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Tue
4–6 ft Swell NW 9s Wind 6 mph ★★★★★
Wed
4–6 ft Swell NW 9s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Thu
4–6 ft Swell N 6s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Fri
3–4 ft Swell N 7s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Sat
3–4 ft Swell W 6s Wind 11 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 2–3 2–4 2–4 3–5 5–7 6–9 4–6 3–4 3–4 2–4 2–4 4–6 2–3 2–4 2–4 2–4 6–9 5–8 5–7 4–7 4–6 3–4 2–4 2–4 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–4 2–4 2–3 2–4
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Wind mph 11 15 10 17 16 11 6 9 13 11 10 9 10 10 11 9 12 13 10 6 4 15 15 13 13 11 11 12 13 13 13
Tide m 3.3↓ 3.9↓ 2.8↓ 2.8↑ 4.0↑ 4.0↓ 4.3↓ 3.2↓ 2.3↑ 3.5↑ 4.5↓ 4.4↑ 3.7↓ 2.1↓ 2.9↑ 4.7↑ 4.3↑ 4.3↓ 2.1↓ 2.3↑ 4.6↑ 3.9↑ 4.7↓ 2.3↓ 1.7↑ 4.2↑ 3.4↑ 4.9↓ 2.7↓ 1.3↑ 3.6↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Torresdale faces. Arrows show where the swell and wind are heading. 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 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

Torresdale faces north. Swell inside the lit window reaches the beach; anything from behind the headlands scores nothing, however big the buoy says it is.

NESWfaces NNWW
NW
1.6 m at 10 s (swell) · 43 % reaches the beach
W
0.9 m at 4 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Torresdale works

Swell
Best from the south west.
Wind
South is offshore.
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

  • Sun 21:56Low1.9 m
  • Mon 04:23High4.1 m
  • Mon 10:31Low2.6 m
  • Mon 16:42High4.3 m
  • Mon 23:21Low1.6 m
  • Tue 05:52High4.3 m
  • Tue 11:48Low2.3 m
  • Tue 17:55High4.5 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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