Waves setting records around Irish Coast
by Ireland Afloat on 15 Apr 2015
Waves setting records Ireland Afloat
The waves just keep getting higher off Ireland's coast!
Following our
report in January this year that the M3 weather buoy measured the second highest wave off the West Cork coast comes news of an even bigger swell just a few weeks later.
Met Éireann's Columba Creamer informs us of a maximum individual wave height of 21.91 metres recorded on the night of Monday 23 February.
That's more than two metres clear of the previous record set by the MM3 weather buoy in January 2013 and marks the fourth highest wave recorded across Ireland's buoy network.
But there's more, as Monday 26 January saw Ireland's biggest ever wave – a 23.44-metre whopper – recorded by the M4 buoy off Donegal.
Creamer – Met Éireann's port meteorological officer, who quality controls data streams from Ireland's buoy network – says the four Fugro buoys (labelled M2, M3, M4 and M5) measure significant wave height, individual wave height, swell height, wind wave height, period and direction for each wave type.
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