Adjacent to East Beach. Reveals ankle- to waist-deep lagoons at low tide — a favourite for freestyle, freeride, and improving riders. Works in W, SW, S, SE, and E. Most riders switch to East Beach as the tide comes in. Butter-flat channels when the banks are exposed. The spot gets busy, and mussel beds mean booties are strongly recommended. Paid Southend Council parking nearby. School: Essex Kitesurf School (mobile, Southend-based).
Public-model blend: Met Office UKV 2km (direct), Met Office Global 10km (direct), AROME-FR, IFS-HRES, ICON, GFS (via Open-Meteo) and MET Norway, averaged across every model that covers each hour, out to day 7; temperature from the Met Office feeds
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Page rebuilt: 25 October 2026 16:20 GMT Forecast data: 25 October 2026 15:30 GMT Tide data: 25 October 2026 16:20 GMT
📏 Tide heights — next 7 days(chart datum at Southend-On-Sea)
No measured beach/groyne height for this spot yet — log a beach report to add one.
🧭 Wind directions
Uncle Tom's Cabin, Thorpe Bay/Southend — the classic flat-water spot, faces ~S into the estuary. E-through-W working; N is offshore off the town. Opposite side of the Southend headland to East Beach.
green = works (brightest = side-on) · blue = cross-shore · orange = side-off / unproven (care) · red = offshore, never · grey = excluded locally
Next 7 days at Uncle Tom’s CabinBest of the week: Tue 27 Oct, ~21 kt around 06:00–09:00 BST (GOOD — the 9 m sweet spot) — very gusty (+12 kt), hard work, good kiters only. Also kiteable: Mon 26 Oct (~18 kt). Models diverge on Sunday: UKV 18 kt vs AROME 28 kt — lower confidence; lead model here is UKV 2km, check both before driving.
Windguru forecast
7-day forecast
Wind scale:<1010–1112–1314–1516–1920–2930+ kt ⚠
Public-model blend, for the full 7 days: The Met Office UKV 2km and Global 10km runs are read directly from the Met Office open-data feeds; AROME-FR 1.3km, IFS-HRES 9km, ICON and GFS come via Open-Meteo, plus MET Norway. Direction is a circular mean; gusts average only the models that publish an hourly-maximum gust. These numbers are raw model output with no coastal correction, so in the same weather they can read a little lighter than a coastally-corrected forecast — treat them as a floor rather than a ceiling. Temperature is from the Met Office runs (interpolated between 3-hourly steps on later days). No sea-state data is available. Tides from UKHO Admiralty (BST, 7-day window). The Windguru widget above is the unmodified Windguru forecast and is a useful cross-check.
Runs out of daylight — ~18 kt W. Working direction (W) with ~18 kt for 5 h inside the tide window (17:00–21:00 BST around the low tide). an OK session on a 12 m — powered-down at the bottom end. ★ Gets dark at 17:53 — almost none of this window is in daylight.
Confidence: looking solid — 75% chance of 12 kt+ in the window · Met Office ensemble, next 54 h
Best window detail — 14:39–16:45 BST (UKV 2km hourly)
Hourly UKV 2km wind for the 2-hour tide window (★) plus an hour either side, averaging ~23 kt in the low-tide window.
OK session — ~17 kt SW in the green window (16:00–17:51 BST). Working direction (SW) with ~17 kt for 6 h inside the tide window (15:15–21:00 BST around the low tide). an OK session on a 12 m — powered-down at the bottom end. ★ Gets dark at 17:51 — window trimmed to daylight (16:00–17:51 BST); the wind carries on past sunset if you are happy riding into dusk.
Confidence: an outside chance — 42% chance of 15 kt+ in the window · Met Office ensemble, next 54 h
Best window detail — 15:17–16:43 BST (UKV 2km hourly)
Hourly UKV 2km wind for the 2-hour tide window (★) plus an hour either side, averaging ~17 kt in the low-tide window.
Good session — ~20 kt SSW in the green window (08:10–10:00 BST). Working direction (SSW) with ~20 kt for 6 h inside the tide window (05:00–10:15 BST around the low tide). GOOD — the 9 m sweet spot. SSW sits exactly on the line with cross-onshore (side-on) here — a borderline call on a bearing we estimate, so treat it as the more cautious of the two. Early-bird window (low water before 08:30) — fine if you can get there, but on the early side for most. ★ Light from 08:10 — the early part of this window is pre-dawn.
Best window detail — 06:42–10:13 BST (UKV 2km hourly)
Hourly UKV 2km wind for the 2-hour tide window (★) plus an hour either side, averaging ~20 kt in the low-tide window. Early-bird session — on the water near sunrise; allow ~2 h for the drive.
Pick a past day to compare three things: the forecast we published (frozen before each hour, never revised afterwards), the wind that actually happened (Open-Meteo reanalysis, hours 05:00–21:00 UK), and what the live weather stations near the spot actually recorded (amber, from 2 Aug 2026). You can go right up to today — today shows the forecast and the live stations; the reanalysis for today lands tomorrow morning.
Important: Forecasts are model-derived and may change. Always verify on Windguru and check local tide tables before you go. LKSA accepts no liability for decisions made based on this forecast.
