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Area of research interest Live from Hilbre Island Latest satellite composites » About us » Project summary » Future plans » Participants » Cruise plan » Outputs » Service level » Register for data » Conditions of use » Disclaimer » Steering Group » SG Documentation » Monitoring » Coastal tide gauges » Ferry measurements » Fixed moorings » Met stations » Radar » Rivers » Satellite » Webcams » Modelling » Ocean-Shelf Models » Irish Sea Model » Wave Model » Mesoscale Model				Seal resting on buoy What's new 7th May 2009 Web site status Web systems working normally. Please refer to individual measurement systems for more detailed information. 31st March 2009 Survey cruises hit sixty The latest Liverpool Bay survey is now underway. The RV Prince Madog will be in Irish Sea for the next few days to service two mooring sites, and to conduct a scientific survey of the sea bed and water quality. 4th March 2009 Coastal Observatory workshops The third of a series of international workshops on Coastal Observatories is going to be held in the UK at Abingdon ( near Oxford) on 11-12 March 2009. » Find out more View past news items | Check status for problems Fri 8 May 22:17 UTC 2009 » About us About the Irish Sea Observatory, future plans, participants, cruise plan, outputs, register for data, Steering Group information. » Monitoring What we are monitoring? Get the latest meteorology, wave heights, currents, tidal sea levels, sea water temperature, salinity, turbidity chlorophyll. Some in real-time others in delayed mode. » Modelling View forecasts for the Irish Sea. Outputs from the Ocean shelf, Irish Sea, Liverpool Bay models, including map based Irish Sea meteorological forecasts. » MapViewer Get information also contained within the monitoring and modelling parts of the website using a map based system. » Status Tells you about problems with the real-time data and model forecasts, on-going maintenance and scheduled down times.				Real-time latest Liverpool Bar Light 2009/05/08 19:59 Sea temp 10.1 degC » Find out more WaveNet Buoy 2009/05/08 21:00:00 Wave height 1.3 m Hilbre Island Hilbre Island Met Station 2009/05/08 22:10 Add one hour for BST Last hour wind average was 11 knots Force 4 SSW Air Tem 9.6 degC Date/time (GMT) Wind speed (knots) 05/08 22:10   11 SSW 05/08 22:00   11 SSW 05/08 21:50   10 SSW 05/08 21:40   10 SSW 05/08 21:30   11 SSW 05/08 21:20   13 SW 05/08 21:10   16 WSW 05/08 21:00   17 SW 05/08 20:50   14 SW 05/08 20:40   16 SW 05/08 20:30   18 SW » Find out more