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Friday 1/17/25 Late Afternoon

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Report Overview

Report Title:

Friday 1/17/25 Late Afternoon

Reporter:

Tory Strange

Report Of The Day:

Change From Yesterday:

Smaller in size

Change From Last Report:

Decrease in surf, the wind has turned light onshore

Current Wave Size:

1/2 a foot maybe 1 foot

Surface Conditions:

a lite chop

Surf Station Surf Factor:

1.25

1.25 (on a 1-10 scale)
Comments: It could be ridable. If ya got nothing better to do.

Surf Reporters 6 Hour Forecast:

Very small surf all the way to and past dark tonight

Dean's Long Range Forecast:

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Swell Info

Form:

Fair

Wave Size In Body Height:

Shin high

Largest Wave:

Not seeing many knee high set waves

Surf Is On Increase or Decrease:

Bottomed out

Wind Swell / Ground Swell / Combo:

Tiny groundswell

Swell Direction:

E/ENE

Current:

Slight, if any

Swell Interval:

10 seconds

Hard To Paddle Out:

0.5 (1-5 scale)

Wind Info

Wind Direction, Speed, & Air Temp:

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Tides

Today's Tide Data:

Tomorrow's Tide Data:

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Temperature, Critters, & More

Water Temperature:

57.9

Water Clarity:

Good

Critters:

No new reports

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Local Radar:

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Surf Report Comments

Friday, January 17th

Reporter: Darby

Surf Reports comments:

7:20 am: The waves look like they’re bottomed out early this Friday morning, with waves in the .5 foot to maybe 1 foot range. Conditions are clean early, with offshore winds blowing out of the W @ just 5 knots. Our marine forecast is calling for those winds to increase out of the NW throughout the afternoon. Our current wave heigh reading is 1.6 feet @ 10 seconds on the local buoy offshore, down from yesterday’s readings of 2.6 feet at 13 seconds.You can see the ocean live by viewing The Surf Station Cam Page here.

5:00 pm: New late afternoon photos are up box #2 and you can see how super small the surf is . the wind has turned onshore and that’s about the only change as far as the surf. But there is a change in the water in that lots of what looks like Dolphins playing the line up! Scroll through the slide show and check them out!

And this will do it until early early in the morning… over and out….

* We are putting our used surfboards on sale – $50 off! Most are at Surf Station 2 at Crescent Beach, here is a link to see them online.

Continuing with winter jackets on sale! Check it out as we have you covered! Buy instore or online. You can buy online and pick up in store too.

Dean is calling for more cold weather to start next week, followed by somewhat “milder” (near normal) temperatures and a multi-day swell starting around mid-week in the Surf Station Surf Forecast .

Here is a good link to track near-shore wave height/period/direction and water temperature just off the NE Florida coast: the Fernandina Beach buoy. Located upstream (to the north) and closer to the coast than the St. Augustine buoy, it’s a good indicator of fluctuations in NE Florida surf conditions influenced by winter cold fronts. Here is an overview of a large-scale, real-time wind map to track the shifting winds associated with the fronts and lows that produce our waves.

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