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Scarista, Harris

★★★★★Fair
Beach break Faces W all tides Offshore east Best swell west

Best of the week: Thursday around 06:00, 2–3 ft and cross-off.

Surf now5–8ft2.5 m at 11 s from the W, wind sea 1.4 m from the SW
Wind19mphSW · cross-on · gusts 31
Tide –No tide station near enough. Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
5–8 ft Swell W 11s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★
Mon
6–8 ft Swell W 10s Wind 24 mph ★★★★★
Tue
5–7 ft Swell W 9s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Wed
4–6 ft Swell W 9s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Thu
2–3 ft Swell W 8s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Fri
3–4 ft Swell W 4s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Sat
6–8 ft Swell W 10s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Sun 4 Mon 5 Tue 6 Wed 7 Thu 8 Fri 9 Sat 10
Time 21 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 5–8 5–7 7–10 8–12 10–15 10–14 6–8 5–8 5–7 5–7 4–7 3–5 3–4 2–4 4–5 4–6 2–3 1–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 3–4 3–4 3–5 4–6 5–7 5–8 5–7 6–9 6–9
Swell 11s 11s 7s 11s 12s 12s 10s 10s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 4s 5s 4s 4s 5s 6s 7s 7s 10s 10s
Wind mph 19 22 23 20 19 20 14 14 14 12 13 15 15 16 17 14 5 4 7 10 9 12 15 19 17 16 19 21 23 22 19
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Scarista, Harris faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Amber marks the sessions worth setting an alarm for. From Thursday 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

Scarista, Harris faces west. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from W round to W; the brighter a wedge, the deeper the water in that direction and the more of the swell gets in. Anything from behind the headlands scores nothing, however big the buoy says it is.

NESWfaces WWSW
W
2.5 m at 11 s (swell) · 63 % reaches the beach
SW
1.4 m at 5 s (wind sea) · 36 % reaches the beach

How Scarista, Harris works

Swell
Best from the west.
Wind
Offshore is from the east; anything with west in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
all tides.

Photos

In the gallery
On the beach - geograph.org.uk - 2333435 Atlantic waves on west coast of Harris - geograph.org.uk - 2593023

Chris McAuley, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Russel Wills, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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