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IOW Surf and Weather made easy:

The site has many links that can help you read the weather and surf but there are ways to make this easier. Many people have asked us how to read the data so here is a summary that will get you started.

• Surf For surfing use the NOAA site for actual surf readings. This gives you surf at the Channel marker buoy and its very accurate for surfing on the west side of the IOW. How to read it: 'Average period' 6 secs and below in general is wind swell so this means that the surf has been generated more locally and therefore will not be as clean as it is closer together, but if the surf 'average' hits 9-14 secs then you have a ground swell which provides much better surf and waves with larger distances apart as they have travelled from the Bay of Biscay. eg 6ft/13secs/East 5mph would mean excellent surfing with all the reefs breaking on the west side of the IOW. 6ft/6secs/SW 30 would mean that its wind swell and would mostly mean that its also onshore and windy and therefore a messy confused swell day.(look for somewhere more sheltered etc..eg Niton/Ventnor and SE side beaches in the gales).

• Web cams To back up the data use the Bantham web cam link. This gives you pretty much the same surf as Compton gets on the IOW west side. But the IOw does sometimes receive mroe swell so check NOAA as the main site.

• Weather The daily hourly weather and sunshine is best located on the BBC 24hr forecast

• Surf forecast advance The best is Magic Seaweed for advance surf forecasts

• Wind We have many real time options here so choose where you will be sailing