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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): 17 pm Wednesday 15 Feb 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 (?) 4.0
WNW 		3.5
WNW 		3.0
WNW 		3.0
WNW 		3.0
WNW 		3.5
WNW 		3.5
WNW 		3.5
WNW 		3.5
WNW 		3.5
WNW 		4.0
WNW 		4.0
WNW 		4.0
WNW 		4.0
WNW 		4.0
WNW 		4.5
WNW 		4.0
WNW 		4.0
WNW
Period (s) (?) 10 10 9 9 9 9 9 10 10 10 11 12 12 12 14 14 13 13
Surfscale
Wave
Graph
(?)
Max-energy 2787 2257 1809 1696 1635 1742 1874 2079 2757 2679 3476 3988 4329 4772 6510 6522 6156 5789
Wind
(km/h) 		55 WNW 60 W 55 W 60 WSW 60 WSW 60 WSW 40 WNW 45 WNW 45 W 45 WNW 45 WNW 45 W 45 W 50 WSW 50 WSW 50 WSW 50 SW 40 SW
Wind State (?) cross-
on		 cross-
on		 cross cross cross cross cross-
on		 cross-
on		 cross-
on		 cross-
on		 cross-
on		 cross-
on		 cross cross cross cross cross-
off		 cross-
off
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 (?) flow high ebb low flow high ebb ebb low flow high ebb low flow high ebb low flow
High Tide
/ height (m)
5:07PM
3.01


5:40AM
2.88



6:33PM
2.90


7:02AM
2.90


Low Tide
/ height (m)


11:26PM
1.36



12:09PM
1.38


12:59AM
1.43


1:46PM
1.27
 

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 7.2 °C (Statistics for 15 Feb 1981-2005 - mean: 7.4 max: 8.4 min: 6.2 °C)
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Summary some clouds some clouds some clouds some clouds cloudy light rain some clouds some clouds some clouds rain shwrs some clouds some clouds some clouds some clouds cloudy some clouds light rain light rain
Rain (mm) - - - - - 1 - - - 1 - - - - - - 1 1
Temp. °C 9 8 7 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7
Chill °C (?) 4 2 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
Sunrise - - - - - - 7:47 - - - - - - - 7:43 - - -
Sunset 17:06 - - - - - - - 17:07 - - - - - - - 17:10 -
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