Regional Coastal Monitoring Programmes
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Note that these are real-time data and are not quality-controlled. Long-range graphs are plotted from a randomised subsample of half-hourly data.
Rhyl Flats
Additional Information
| Wave buoy location | 53° 22.92' N 003° 36.21' W |
| Approximate water depth | 10 m CD |
| Approximate spring tidal range | 7.2 m |
| Storm threshold | 3.25 m |
Wave parameters are recorded using a Datawell Directional Waverider Mk III owned by RWE Innogy UK Limited, who have kindly agreed to make their real-time and archived data freely available to other users via this website. The buoy was deployed on 27/04/2007, at which time the magnetic declination at the site was 3.79° west, changing by 0.16° east per year.
