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Skaill surfer, Bay of Skaill

1:08 pm 20 Jan 2009


Bay of Skaill ratings
Quality on a good day: 4.0
Consistency of surf: 3.0
Crowds: 4.0

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Bay of Skaill Surf Forecast / Scotland – Orkney / UK

48hr Weather and Surf Issued (local time): 18 pm Saturday 02 Jun 2012

Bay of Skaill surf forecast is for near shore open water. Breaking waves will often be smaller at less exposed spots.

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Largest waves (m) & direction (?) 1.5
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Period (s) (?) 9 9 9 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 7 7 7 7 7 7
Surfscale
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Max-energy 343 335 326 278 278 234 230 224 213 208 198 187 212 210 229 246 217 192
Wind
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NNE 25
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NNE 30
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N 30
N 35
NNW 35
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Key to wind character - offshore winds at Bay of Skaill blow from the SSE
onshore cross-onshore cross-shore cross-offshore offshore glassy
Tide State (?) ebb low flow high ebb low flow high ebb low flow high ebb low flow high ebb low
High Tide
/ height (m)



10:31PM
3.27



10:58AM
3.34



11:22PM
3.41



11:53AM
3.45


Low Tide
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4:12PM
0.59



4:37AM
0.70



5:03PM
0.53



5:29AM
0.52



5:52PM
0.52
 

Note: the tide data above is for Wick, Scotland which is 70 km away. Surf properties and timing are calculated for Bay of Skaill. New forecast is published every 6 hours at www.surf-forecast.com. See detailed tide info and graph.

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Today's Bay of Skaill sea temperature is 10.0 °C (Statistics for 02 Jun 1981-2005 - mean: 10.0 max: 11.3 min: 9.1 °C)

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Rain (mm) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Temp. °C 8 8 8 8 8 8 9 9 9 10 9 8 8 8 8 8 8 8
Chill °C (?) 5 4 4 4 4 5 6 5 5 7 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
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Sunset - 22:14 - - - - - - - 22:15 - - - - - - - 22:16
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