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Ballycastle avaliaçãos
Qualidade em um dia bom: 2.7
Consistência do surf: 2.7
Nível de dificuldade: 4.0
Windsurf e kite surf: 1.5
Multidões: 4.5

Overall: 3.2

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Ballycastle Swell Statistics, Maio: Surf with Light or Offshore Winds

This image shows only the swells directed at Ballycastle that coincided with light winds or offshore conditions through a typical May. It is based on 2448 predictions, one every 3 hours. The direction of the spokes show where quality surf generating swell comes from. Five colours show increasing wave sizes. The smallest swells, less than 0.5m (1.5 feet), high are coloured blue. Green and yellow illustrate increasing swell sizes and red shows the largest swells, greater than >3m (>10ft). In both graphs, the area of any colour is proportional to how commonly that size swell occurs.

The diagram implies that the most common swell direction, shown by the biggest spokes, was WNW, whereas the the most common wind blows from the SSW. The chart at the bottom shows the same thing but without direction information. For example, swells larger than 1.5 feet (0.5m) coincided with good wind conditions 1.6% of the time, equivalent to 0 days. Open sea swells exceeding >3m (>10ft) are unlikely to happen in a normal May. Taking into account the fraction of these swells that coincided with forecast offshore winds, and given the fact that Ballycastle is slightly protected from open water swells, we estimate that clean surf can be found at Ballycastle about 1.6% of the time and that surf is messed up by onshore wind 16% of the time. This is means that we expect 6 days with waves in a typical May, of which 0 days should be clean enough to surf.
