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Today at Long Sands Beach: Excellent for windsurfing — 89/100 for advanced level. Wind 15 kn E · Waves 1.2 m, 7 s · Tide -1.3 to 0.5 m. Best window around 21:00 UTC. Today's conditions at Long Sands Beach: 1.0m waves with strong onshore wind. Wing Foiling looks Excellent in the afternoon, with Windsurfing also worth considering. Water temperature is 13°C / 55°F.
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Today plus the next two days are free for everyone — scored in 3-hour windows, just like the app. The full 8-day forecast lives in the 4Shor app.
Long Sands Beach faces E, so the prevailing westerly comes over the land before it reaches you. For windsurfing that usually means a gustier, less predictable flow than the raw wind speed suggests.
Today's wind is onshore at 15 kn. Onshore is the safest direction for windsurfing here — anything that goes wrong drifts you back to the beach — at the cost of a choppier surface.
Over the published window Long Sands Beach clears 60/100 for windsurfing at Intermediate, Advanced, Expert levels — that is who this spot is for on this sport. Today, 3 of 10 daylight hours clear that line at Intermediate.
Among the 31 scored spots within reach today, Long Sands Beach ranks 8th for windsurfing. The order changes by discipline: the same conditions that put a spot top for one sport can drop it down the list for another.
Satellite-derived bathymetry with 10 m pixels and 10 cm vertical resolution out to ~40 m depth. The shape of the seabed is what determines where and how waves break.
Most apps run a single global model at 9–25 km. We blend regional NWP from national meteorological offices at 1.3–2 km — UK Met Office UKV, Météo-France AROME HD, ItaliaMeteo ICON-2I — with ECMWF IFS for the 8-day horizon. Finer resolution means the sea breeze, cliff funnelling and bay shadowing that changes everything for a session.
A nearshore wave model propagates the spectrum across the bathymetric mesh — modelling refraction, shoaling, dissipation, focusing and breaking as it goes. Most apps stop at swell + wind. We go further.
10 sport models × 4 ability levels weight wave height, period, wind, tide and breaking conditions differently — calibrated against ridden sessions so the scores mean what they say.
A wide, gently curving Blue Flag sandy beach at Tynemouth, facing east onto the North Sea, with a beach break producing left and right-hand waves - best in autumn/winter with north-east swell and south-west offshore wind, surfable at all tide stages though rip currents are a hazard. Kitesurfing and motorised craft are banned; surfboards stay within chequered-flag zones. Dogs excluded from the southern section in summer. RNLI lifeguards patrol daily.
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Wind at Long Sands Beach today: 15 kn E (gusting 25 kn). Wind direction relative to the shore affects windsurfing conditions significantly — offshore winds produce cleaner, glassier surfaces while onshore winds add chop. These are daily averages; the 4Shor app shows hourly detail.
Waves at Long Sands Beach today: 1.2 m, 7 s period from S, crumbling character. 4Shor derives nearshore wave conditions from ECMWF IFS 9-km atmospheric data and the IBI regional ocean model, updated hourly.
The best window for windsurfing at Long Sands Beach today is around 00:00 UTC, when conditions score 75/100 for intermediate level. Conditions can shift by the hour — the 4Shor app shows the full 24-hour score chart.
For beginners, Long Sands Beach scores 51/100 today for surfing — Okay. A score of 65–79 is Good for a beginner; 80+ is Excellent (90+ is Epic!); below 45 the session is usually not worth it. 4Shor scores every location across Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced and Expert levels.
Long Sands Beach is scored for Surfing, Windsurfing, Wing Foiling, Paddleboarding, Swimming, Kayaking, Canoeing in the 4Shor forecast system. Conditions are rated Beginner through Expert for each sport, updated every hour, so you always know whether the session is worth the drive.
Long Sands Beach is a coastal location near Tynemouth in United Kingdom. It is one of more than 2,500 European water-sport locations scored daily by 4Shor.
4Shor's ShorSense™ system combines satellite-derived seafloor mapping, nearshore wave models, wind and tide data to generate a hyper-local forecast. At Long Sands Beach, conditions are scored hourly on a 0–100 scale for each sport and ability level. A score of 80+ means Excellent (90+ Epic!); 65–79 is Good; below 45 the session is usually not worth the drive.
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