Paddleboarding is heavily reliant on conditions – especially wind (strength and direction) and current (tide at the coast or flow on the river) can have a huge effect on your session. Therefore it’s very important that before you go out, you know what the weather’s doing … and what it’s about to do next! These are some of our favourite links to external weather resources for SUP in South Essex, centred around Leigh-on-Sea… You can learn more about weather in our SUP lessons!

Windyty.com – animation based on forecast information

Southend Pier RNLI – live weather station

Thorpe Bay Yacht Club – live weather station

XCWeather – interactive UK map

Windfinder – Chalkwell Beach

Big Salty – Chalkwell Beach

Windguru – Southend

Magic Seaweed – Southend on Sea

Met Office – Inshore Waters (Gibraltar Point to North Foreland)

Port of London Authority – live tides

Port of London Authority – tide tables

UK Hydrographic Office – Southend 7-day Admiralty EasyTide predictions

River Chelmer at Springfield, Chelmsford – courtesy of the Environment Agency

From the Thames Estuary Yacht Club (next door to the casino on Southend seafront) www.teyc.co.uk

From Thorpe Bay Yacht Club, thanks to www.tbyc.org

And from Shoebury East Beach, thanks to donate.sundried.com