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Tresta East

★★★★★Small
Faces SE low to mid tide Offshore West Best swell East

Best of the week: Sunday around 13:00, 9–12 ft and cross-off.

Surf now3–5ft0.2 m at 8 s from the SE, wind sea 2.9 m from the SE
Wind27mphSE · onshore · gusts 39
Tide 1.1mRising · high 22:05 (2.5 m). Works low to mid tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
5–7 ft Swell SE 7s Wind 32 mph ★★★★★
Sun
9–12 ft Swell SE 10s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Mon
0–1 ft Swell W 4s Wind 31 mph ★★★★★
Tue
5–7 ft Swell S 7s Wind 35 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0–1 ft Swell W 4s Wind 27 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0 ft Swell NW 3s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Fri
0–1 ft Swell S 3s Wind 16 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 5–7 17–22 14–19 10–13 9–12 8–11 0–1 0 0 0 0 5–7 1–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 0–1 0–1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1
Swell 7s 11s 10s 10s 10s 10s 4s 4s 7s 7s 3s 7s 6s 7s 7s 6s 4s 4s 4s 4s 4s 3s 5s 5s 5s 5s 3s 3s 4s 4s 4s
Wind mph 32 29 17 15 13 11 31 29 22 13 10 35 35 38 34 34 27 28 30 24 21 15 9 8 4 5 16 18 21 22 22
Tide m 1.3↑ 1.3↑ 2.4↑ 1.8↓ 0.8↓ 1.4↑ 1.0↑ 2.4↑ 2.1↓ 0.8↓ 1.1↑ 0.8↑ 2.2↑ 2.4↓ 1.0↓ 0.8↑ 0.7↑ 1.9↑ 2.6↓ 1.3↓ 0.6↑ 0.8↑ 1.6↑ 2.5↑ 1.7↓ 0.6↓ – – – – –
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Tresta East faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Mid Yell 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

Tresta East faces south-east. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from E 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 SESESE
SE
0.2 m at 8 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
SE
2.9 m at 6 s (wind sea) · 50 % reaches the beach

How Tresta East works

Swell
Best from the east.
Wind
Offshore is from the west; anything with south-east in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
low to mid tide.
Getting there
park at kirk walk 20 meters to beach

this is in Shetland, the watch out for the needle like pinnacles under the east banks

Tide times

  • Sat 22:05High2.5 m
  • Sun 03:13Low0.6 m
  • Sun 09:35High2.4 m
  • Sun 15:28Low0.7 m
  • Sun 21:43High2.6 m
  • Mon 03:50Low0.5 m
  • Mon 10:11High2.5 m
  • Mon 16:07Low0.6 m

Mid Yell station, 9 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Tresta Beach, Fetlar - geograph.org.uk - 1781987 Tresta Beach, Fetlar - geograph.org.uk - 1781990

Robbie, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Robbie, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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