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FX

★★★★★Small
Reef break Faces E mid to high tide Offshore South West Best swell North East
Surf now0–1ft0.4 m at 4 s from the SE, wind sea 0.4 m from the SW
Wind12mphS · cross-off · gusts 20
Tide 2.2mRising · high 21:51 (3.9 m). Works mid to high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
0–1 ft Swell SW 3s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Mon
0–1 ft Swell SW 3s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Tue
0 ft Swell NW 2s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0 ft Swell N 5s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Thu
1–2 ft Swell NE 6s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Fri
1–2 ft Swell NE 7s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Sat
0–1 ft Swell N 8s Wind 16 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 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1
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 12 9 13 18 18 14 7 6 7 5 4 7 9 11 11 12 14 15 17 15 8 16 13 7 9 16 16 17 20 19 15
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 FX 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

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

NESWfaces ESESW
SE
0.4 m at 4 s (swell) · 36 % reaches the beach
SW
0.4 m at 3 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How FX works

Swell
Best from the north east.
Wind
South West is offshore.
Tide
mid to high tide.
Getting there
Turn off A1. get to Beadnell (South of Seahouses). Find "On the Beach" restaurant. Ask for someone who surfs (inside the restaurant) and say "please point me at FX". If you stand outside the chip shop and look northeast you will be able to see FX (almost in line with the Farne Islands).

A reef break found between Beadnell and Seahouses Golf Club aprrox 1 mile out to sea (at high tide). Breaks a fast left hander, but there is a right if you paddle about five minutes further north to the other side of the rock outcrop (not recomended). Can be very tubey, has large channel to paddle out in which makes access reasonable but not easy.

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, 3 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

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