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Murkle

★★★★★Flat
Reef break Faces NE high tide Offshore South West Best swell North West
Surf now0ft0.9 m at 10 s from the NW, wind sea 0.4 m from the W
Wind15mphSW · offshore · gusts 26
Tide 3.6mFalling · low 22:26 (1.7 m). Works high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
0 ft Swell NW 10s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Mon
0 ft Swell NW 10s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Tue
0 ft Swell NW 9s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Wed
1–2 ft Swell W 7s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Thu
2–3 ft Swell W 9s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Fri
1–2 ft Swell SW 3s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Sat
0 ft Swell W 5s Wind 9 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 0 0 0 0 0 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3 2–3 1–2 0–1 0–1 0 1–2 1–2 1–2 0 0 0 0 0 0
Swell 10s 10s 10s 10s 11s 11s 9s 9s 9s 9s 8s 9s 7s 8s 8s 8s 9s 8s 8s 7s 7s 3s 3s 4s 5s 5s 5s 6s 7s 8s 8s
Wind mph 12 18 17 23 23 16 11 8 15 15 8 8 9 11 9 8 15 15 13 9 4 16 20 15 14 9 9 12 16 17 15
Tide m 3.2↓ 3.5↓ 2.5↓ 2.2↑ 3.3↑ 3.8↓ 3.9↑ 3.0↓ 1.9↓ 2.7↑ 4.1↑ 3.9↑ 3.6↓ 1.8↓ 2.1↑ 4.0↑ 3.6↑ 4.1↓ 2.1↓ 1.5↑ 3.7↑ 3.1↑ 4.5↓ 2.5↓ 1.1↑ 3.2↑ 2.4↑ 4.6↑ 3.0↓ 1.0↓ 2.6↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Murkle faces. Arrows show where the swell and wind are heading. Tide is the height at Scrabster 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

Murkle 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 NENWW
NW
0.9 m at 10 s (swell) · blocked, 0 %
W
0.4 m at 3 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Murkle works

Swell
Best from the north west.
Wind
South West is offshore.
Tide
high tide.
Getting there
inbetween Thurso and John o'Groats on the a836

Left hand reef break running when thurso east is big.. can see it from the main road.

Tide times

  • Sun 22:26Low1.7 m
  • Mon 04:51High3.7 m
  • Mon 11:04Low2.1 m
  • Mon 17:22High3.8 m
  • Mon 23:52Low1.5 m
  • Tue 06:14High3.9 m
  • Tue 12:23Low1.9 m
  • Tue 18:31High4.1 m

Scrabster station, 7 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

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