Wave Height Website

[jimh]

Don't know how many people here know about this, but with all the fairly recent threads on RCD categorys, sea state etc I thought I'd share this website - basically there are a number of super bouys and light ships that send various data, on an hourly basis back to a data center. This data includes wave height - the link takes you to the Sandettie lightship which is great for Ramsgate - Calais cross channellers since prior to your departure you can get a snapshot of current wind and wave height half way across. There are numerous other bouys around the coast of the UK but the site also gathers global bouy data.
Using the historical data and with wind forecast + tide tables you can also build your own wave height forecasts.
Wave Height

 

[aquaholic]

wow, very usefull. so much info.
Thanks

 

[Steve Clayton]

Similar to this
http://www.pol.ac.uk/ntslf/

and lots of other info

and it's not the height of the waves that bothers me, it's the depth of the troughs /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[ajt]

Have you seen www.bramblemet.co.uk

 

[oldgit]

This one is better.Real waves and all Proper Waves

 

[aquaholic]

ooh yes, nice and local.

 

[oldgit]

Weather wild stab in the dark type forecast

The 5 day weather guess for thursday said wind 7mph.Anometer err....actual wind measurer on the website was showing 30 Mph with stronger gusts.We live on hill not far from camera and all the rooms on east side of house have felt distinctly chilly in last day or two.

 

[gonfishing]

Here is another one
www.cefas.co.uk/wavenet

Julian