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Embleton Bay

★★★★★Flat
Reef break Faces NE all tides Offshore South West Best swell North

Best of the week: Friday around 13:00, 3–4 ft and offshore.

Surf now0ft0.4 m at 4 s from the SE, wind sea 0.4 m from the SW
Wind12mphSW · offshore · gusts 21
Tide 2.2mRising · high 21:51 (3.9 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
0 ft Swell SW 3s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Mon
0 ft Swell SW 3s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Tue
0–1 ft Swell NW 2s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0–1 ft Swell N 5s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Thu
4–6 ft Swell NE 6s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Fri
3–4 ft Swell NE 7s Wind 6 mph ★★★★★
Sat
1–3 ft Swell N 8s Wind 24 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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 2–3 3–4 3–5 4–6 3–5 3–5 3–4 3–4 2–4 1–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2
Swell 3s 3s 5s 3s 3s 4s 2s 7s 2s 5s 5s 5s 9s 9s 8s 8s 3s 4s 5s 4s 6s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 8s 7s 7s 3s 3s
Wind mph 15 9 9 15 17 8 7 5 5 4 3 12 13 14 14 17 25 26 24 23 18 26 24 10 3 20 24 24 24 23 22
Tide m 2.6↑ 1.9↑ 3.5↑ 3.8↓ 2.5↓ 2.0↑ 1.3↑ 2.6↑ 4.1↑ 3.2↓ 1.7↓ 1.2↓ 1.8↑ 4.1↑ 3.9↓ 1.8↓ 1.5↓ 1.1↑ 3.7↑ 4.5↓ 2.2↓ 2.1↓ 0.7↑ 3.1↑ 4.8↓ 2.7↓ 2.8↓ 0.6↓ 2.4↑ 4.8↑ 3.3↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Embleton Bay faces. Arrows show where the swell and wind are heading. Tide is the height at North Sunderland (Northumberland) 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

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

NESWfaces NESESW
SE
0.4 m at 4 s (swell) · blocked, 0 %
SW
0.4 m at 3 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Embleton Bay works

Swell
Best from the north.
Wind
South West is offshore.
Tide
all tides.
Getting there
Follow signs for Alnwich then follow signs for Embleton then follow signs for the Golf course and walk over the dunes.

Nice beach break Right and lefts, bit of a reef to the southern end of the beach with a right and left (closes out a little but soem a are makeable). Surfed it once (this week) and would recommend it.

Tide times

  • Sun 21:51High3.9 m
  • Mon 04:24Low1.5 m
  • Mon 10:58High3.9 m
  • Mon 17:09Low1.9 m
  • Mon 23:22High4.0 m
  • Tue 05:53Low1.3 m
  • Tue 12:22High4.1 m
  • Tue 18:25Low1.7 m

North Sunderland (Northumberland) station, 10 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Comments

26 Aug 2005 · Mowgli Embletons a prettty good spot! same situation as "Lyn-Z A", kinda just learning but its really good.
20 Jun 2005 · Matt L Got this classic a few weeks ago the 'A' frame is so hollow also had a go on the right hander on the reef to the right of the bay but it was closing out and if you sat on the end it backed off! but on the right swell could be really good. Defo worth a look.
20 May 2005 · James C Yep, good description. Great little A frame in the middle, looks absolutely mint from the beach... and is sometimes as good as it looks!

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